France is considering sending troops to Greenland in response to claims by U.S. President Donald Trump regarding the island. Information about the potential deployment of troops to Greenland was shared by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot in an interview with "Sud Radio.
In 2023, the country failed to finish in the top three as Denmark won the Bocuse d’Or, a fine-dining competition. This year, France reclaimed the crown.
The prime minister does a European tour while announcing more spending on security around the island, following President Trump’s stated desire to have Greenland, a semiautonomous Danish territory, as part of the U.
We must face the fact that there are serious challenges regarding security and defense in the Arctic and North Atlantic,’ Danish defense minister says
Danish PM Frederiksen, however, signalled she had "no reason to believe there is a military threat to Greenland or Denmark."
France offered to deploy troops to Greenland after Donald Trump repeatedly signaled he’d like to annex the Danish territory, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said. Barrot said in an interview with Sud Radio that France had “started discussing” sending troops to Greenland,
Europe is uniting in response to US President Donald Trump’s efforts to appropriate Greenland. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen sought to drum up support from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris before a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot says Paris is in talks with Copenhagen about sending troops to Greenland. Donald Trump would not take kindly to such a move.
Denmark has said that it would spend 14.6 billion Danish crowns ($2.05 billion) boosting its military presence in the Arctic, following renewed interest by U.S. President Donald Trump in controlling Greenland,
Arte France, the upscale French public service broadcaster, has made the Nordic region one of its biggest shopping destination of TV drama with the U.K., since the Danish cult series “The Killing” (2010) and “Borgen” (2012).
Copenhagen boosting defence spending and talking with allies as it resists US demand for the strategic island.