PARIS: France is working with partners on a plan over how to respond should the United States act on its threat to take over Greenland, Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Wednesday. Barrot said the subject would be raised at his meeting with the foreign ministers of Germany and Poland later in the day. The White House said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump is discussing options for acquiring Greenland, including potential use of the US military, in a revival of his ambition to control the strategic island despite European objections.

It came as European allies rallied behind Denmark after renewed US insistence it must have Greenland.

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump and his team are discussing options for acquiring Greenland and the use of the US military in furtherance of the goal is “always an option,”…