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EU Observer (23 December 2025)

Elena Sánchez Nicolás

The US administration's renewed push “to have” Greenland, the autonomous Danish territory whose global importance has recently shifted from remote island to linchpin of Arctic security and green‑tech supply chain, has prompted the EU to push back.

“We need Greenland for national security, not for its minerals,” US president Donald Trump said on Monday (22 December), after appointing Jeff Landry, the governor of the state of Louisiana, as special envoy to Greenland late on Sunday.

“If you look up and down the coast of Greenland, you can see Russian and Chinese ships all over the place,” Trump also said. “We have to have it...Greenland's a big deal”.

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