Morning opening: The unwelcome visitor
Jakub Krupa
US vice-president JD Vance has determined to affix his spouse, Usha, on a visit to Greenland later this week, attracting much more consideration to the controversial go to criticised by each Greenlandic and Danish leaders.
In a social media publish final night time, Vance stated:
There was a lot pleasure round Usha’s go to to Greenland this Friday that I made a decision that I didn’t need her to have all that enjoyable by herself, and so I’m going to affix her.
He stated he needed to “check out what is going on with the security there of Greenland” after “a lot of other countries have threatened Greenland, have threatened to use its territories and its waterways” to pose risk to the US and Canada.
However in a probably inflammatory a part of his video, he stated:
I say that talking for President Trump: we need to reinvigorate the safety of the folks of Greenland as a result of we predict it’s vital to defending the safety of your entire world.
Sadly, leaders in each America and in Denmark, I believe, ignored Greenland for much too lengthy.
That’s been dangerous for Greenland, it’s additionally been dangerous for the safety of your entire world.
We predict we will take issues in a special course, so I’m gonna go test it out.
Regardless of the rhetoric, the character of the go to can even change: after protests from Greenlandic leaders, the Vances will now not participate in a dog-sled race or go to historic locations, however solely concentrate on the US navy base, Pituffik Area Base.
As Danish broadcaster DR notes, its historical past goes again to 1953 when 116 Greenlanders have been forcibly faraway from the world to make room for the bottom (they later received a lawsuit and acquired some compensation for the transfer).
The bottom was beforehand often called Thule Air Base, however was renamed Pituffik Area Base in 2023, after the plain on which the bottom is constructed, Pituffik.
DR additionally famous that in 1968 an American navy bomber B52 carrying nuclear weapons crashed close to the bottom.
The White Home press launch highlighted the bottom’s significance in the course of the chilly conflict, and famous:
Within the many years since, neglect and inaction from Danish leaders and previous U.S. administrations have introduced our adversaries with the chance to advance their very own priorities in Greenland and the Arctic. President Trump is rightly altering course.
Responding to the announcement, Danish international minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen stated this morning on P1 Morgen that it was “very positive that the Americans cancelled their visit to the Greenlandic society.”
“Instead, they will visit their own base, Pituffik, and we have nothing against that,” he stated, noting with satisfaction that vehicles shipped to the island in the previous couple of days in preparations for the broader US go to are actually being despatched again.
The minister argued that by limiting the go to, the US is definitely de-escalating the stress, even because it theoretically upgraded its delegation by sending the US vice-president. The Danish press additionally known as it “a small victory.”
However defence minister Troels Lund Poulsen remained unconvinced in regards to the go to, saying it was not the precise improvement in relations between shut allies, DR reported.
The appearing authorities of Greenland solely stated diplomatically that it “notes that the previously announced US delegation visit to Nuuk and Sisimiut has been cancelled by the US government.”
Count on this subject to proceed to draw a whole lot of consideration forward of Friday, as a sensible check of what US leaders are ready to do and say on Greenland, which stays a Danish territory and doesn’t seem to indicate a lot curiosity in changing into part of the US.
Elsewhere, we will likely be following updates on Ukraine forward of what appeared to quantity to a Black Sea ceasefire, as Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits Emmanuel Macron in Paris this night, forward of one other assembly of “the coalition of the willing” tomorrow.
It’s Wednesday, 26 March 2025, and that is Europe dwell. It’s Jakub Krupa right here.
Good morning.
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Morning opening: The unwelcome visitor
Jakub Krupa
US vice-president JD Vance has determined to affix his spouse, Usha, on a visit to Greenland later this week, attracting much more consideration to the controversial go to criticised by each Greenlandic and Danish leaders.
In a social media publish final night time, Vance stated:
There was a lot pleasure round Usha’s go to to Greenland this Friday that I made a decision that I didn’t need her to have all that enjoyable by herself, and so I’m going to affix her.
He stated he needed to “check out what is going on with the security there of Greenland” after “a lot of other countries have threatened Greenland, have threatened to use its territories and its waterways” to pose risk to the US and Canada.
However in a probably inflammatory a part of his video, he stated:
I say that talking for President Trump: we need to reinvigorate the safety of the folks of Greenland as a result of we predict it’s vital to defending the safety of your entire world.
Sadly, leaders in each America and in Denmark, I believe, ignored Greenland for much too lengthy.
That’s been dangerous for Greenland, it’s additionally been dangerous for the safety of your entire world.
We predict we will take issues in a special course, so I’m gonna go test it out.
Regardless of the rhetoric, the character of the go to can even change: after protests from Greenlandic leaders, the Vances will now not participate in a dog-sled race or go to historic locations, however solely concentrate on the US navy base, Pituffik Area Base.
As Danish broadcaster DR notes, its historical past goes again to 1953 when 116 Greenlanders have been forcibly faraway from the world to make room for the bottom (they later received a lawsuit and acquired some compensation for the transfer).
The bottom was beforehand often called Thule Air Base, however was renamed Pituffik Area Base in 2023, after the plain on which the bottom is constructed, Pituffik.
DR additionally famous that in 1968 an American navy bomber B52 carrying nuclear weapons crashed close to the bottom.
The White Home press launch highlighted the bottom’s significance in the course of the chilly conflict, and famous:
Within the many years since, neglect and inaction from Danish leaders and previous U.S. administrations have introduced our adversaries with the chance to advance their very own priorities in Greenland and the Arctic. President Trump is rightly altering course.
Responding to the announcement, Danish international minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen stated this morning on P1 Morgen that it was “very positive that the Americans cancelled their visit to the Greenlandic society.”
“Instead, they will visit their own base, Pituffik, and we have nothing against that,” he stated, noting with satisfaction that vehicles shipped to the island in the previous couple of days in preparations for the broader US go to are actually being despatched again.
The minister argued that by limiting the go to, the US is definitely de-escalating the stress, even because it theoretically upgraded its delegation by sending the US vice-president. The Danish press additionally known as it “a small victory.”
However defence minister Troels Lund Poulsen remained unconvinced in regards to the go to, saying it was not the precise improvement in relations between shut allies, DR reported.
The appearing authorities of Greenland solely stated diplomatically that it “notes that the previously announced US delegation visit to Nuuk and Sisimiut has been cancelled by the US government.”
Count on this subject to proceed to draw a whole lot of consideration forward of Friday, as a sensible check of what US leaders are ready to do and say on Greenland, which stays a Danish territory and doesn’t seem to indicate a lot curiosity in changing into part of the US.
Elsewhere, we will likely be following updates on Ukraine forward of what appeared to quantity to a Black Sea ceasefire, as Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits Emmanuel Macron in Paris this night, forward of one other assembly of “the coalition of the willing” tomorrow.
It’s Wednesday, 26 March 2025, and that is Europe dwell. It’s Jakub Krupa right here.
Good morning.
