How Europe should respond to Trump’s Greenland threats
US move on the island would be a breach of the transatlantic alliance
US move on the island would be a breach of the transatlantic alliance

By capitulating again, the EU and UK would signal that we are now irrevocably in a might-makes-right world

Military alliance yet to issue public statement asserting territorial integrity of Arctic island and kingdom of Denmark

Announcement comes as Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Arctic island leads to alarm among European allies

Eight targeted European nations warn Washington that it risks a ‘dangerous downward spiral’

US president tells audience in Davos that a possible purchase should not be seen as a threat to Nato

Conflict over Greenland could destroy the transatlantic alliance, requiring a new European security treaty to replace it