Closing summary
… and on that note, it’s a wrap!
Denmark has summoned the US charge d’affaires for an urgent meeting over an alleged influence campaign in Greenland aimed at shaping public opinion and the future of the Arctic territory.
The country’s public broadcaster DR reported that Danish intelligence services have uncovered a network of “at least three” US citizens working on “influence operations” in Greenland to drive a wedge between Denmark and the territory, in a bid to pave the way for it to get closer to the United States.
Danish prime minister (13:37), foreign minister (10:03) and defence minister (17:10) all expressed their concerns about the report.
Elsewhere,
French president Emmanuel Macron, German prime minister Friedrich Merz, and Polish prime minister Donald Tusk made a rare joint visit to Chișinău to celebrate Moldova’s 34th anniversary of independence, and backing the country’s pro-European course a month ahead of high-stakes parliamentary election (16:17, 16:27, 16:35, 16:47, 16:57).
The German cabinet has signed off on a controversial draft bill to build up the ranks of military volunteers, in a bid to create Europe’s strongest conventional army to help face down the Russian threat (12:13, 12:22, 12:35, 14:04).
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised Russia for “sending negative signals regarding meetings and further developments,” as he offered an update on on-going discussions on security guarantees for Ukraine (10:49).
Austrian president Alexander Van der Bellen sparked a controversy after criticising Viktor Orbán’s Hungary in his speech at the European Forum Alpbach last night (15:38).
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Danish minister says will tell US senators to respect Denmark after Greenland spying allegations
Back to Denmark, the country’s defence minister Troels Lund Poulsen is also expected to meet with a delegation of US senators, like the country’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen did earlier today (13:37).
He told Jyllands-Posten that he would raise the issue of alleged US attempts to interfere with Greenlandic and Danish politics, and remind them that ”Denmark is a very, very close ally of the US” and should be respected as such.
