Mette Frederiksen makes comments after European leaders give cautious welcome to US president’s tariff U-turn
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Denmark’s prime minister has called for “constructive” talks over Greenland that respect its territorial integrity, as Europeans gave a wary welcome to Donald Trump’s decision to drop tariff threats against countries opposing his plans to seize the island.
“We can negotiate all political aspects – security, investment, the economy – but we cannot negotiate our sovereignty,” Mette Frederiksen said on Thursday, after the US president suggested a deal was in sight to end the dispute over the territory.
Trump said after meeting Nato’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, that the “framework of a future deal” had been found to settle the issue after weeks of escalating tensions that risked the biggest breakdown in transatlantic relations in decades.
