French president to touch down in Greenland, in solidarity with territory eyed by Trump

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Source: CNN World

Published 12:00 AM EDT, Sun June 15, 2025


Paris CNN — French President Emmanuel Macron is due to land in Greenland Sunday, in a move designed to bolster European support for the Danish territory, which is still batting away advances from the Trump administration to acquire it for the United States.

Macron will be the first foreign leader to visit the resource-rich island since US President Donald Trump began his campaign to buy or annex Greenland, which he insists the US needs for national security purposes.

A source at the Élysée Palace said that the French president’s trip had a “dimension of European solidarity and one of strengthening sovereignty and territorial integrity,” without mentioning the Trump administration’s threats to purchase Greenland, or take it by force. Additionally, Macron’s visit would focus on Arctic security, climate change and Greenland’s economic development, the source added.

During his time on the world’s biggest island the French leader will tour a glacier, a hydroelectric power station and a Danish warship moored near the semiautonomous territory’s capital, Nuuk, per the Élysée. “The deeps are not for sale, any more than Greenland is for sale, any more than Antarctica or the high seas are for sale,” Macron said on June 9 as he opened a United Nations conference on the oceans in Nice, France.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/15/europe/french-president-macron-greenland-visit-trump-intl

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1. It would be interesting if Denmark/Greenland asked France for a couple of destroyers to patrol Greenland for a while.

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2. I hope we find out what bribes Trump is offering the people of Greenland.

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3. Bribes, or is he just trying to grab it by the peninsula?

[CTyankee]

4. That gave me the laugh of the day!

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6. Definite DUzy!

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8. That comment fits well with I thought was an interesting choice of words:

"....batting away advances from .... Trump".
Makes it sound like Macron was coming to the aid of a woman being harassed by a perv at the bar.
Which is also a likely scenario.

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5. Macron visits Greenland in show of European unity and signal to Trump

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j7x2xe54eo

In a sign of Greenland's growing importance, French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting the Arctic island today, in what experts say is a show of European unity and a signal to Donald Trump.

Stepping foot in the capital Nuuk this morning, Macron will be met with chilly and blustery weather, but despite the cold conditions, he'll be greeted warmly.
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France's president is the first high-profile leader to be invited by Greenland's new prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen. Talks will focus on North Atlantic and Arctic security as well as climate change, economic development and critical minerals, before Macron continues to the G7 summit in Canada.
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[Pachamama]

7. Clear message to Trump

Hands off Greenland

France will be there to help them

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9. The Guardian: Macron criticises Trump's threats to take over Greenland during visit

Emmanuel Macron has criticised Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland as he became the first foreign head of state to visit the vast, mineral-rich Arctic territory since the US president began making explicit threats to annex it.

“I don’t think that’s what allies do,” Macron said as he arrived in the Danish autonomous territory for a highly symbolic visit aimed at conveying “France’s and the EU’s solidarity” with Greenland on his way to a summit of G7 leaders in Canada.

The French president said: “It’s important that Denmark and the Europeans commit themselves to this territory, where the strategic stakes are very high and whose territorial integrity must be respected.”

Trump has said repeatedly the US needs Greenland, which is strategically located at the crossroads between the Atlantic and the Arctic, for US national security reasons, and has refused to rule out the use of force to secure it.

Full article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/15/emmanuel-macron-criticises-donald-trump-threats-take-over-greenland