Macron Greenland visits the European Unity offer and a reference to Trump

In a sign of Greenland’s increasing importance, French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting the Arctic Island today, while experts say it is a presentation of European unity and a reference to Donald Trump.

When moving in the Nuk capital this morning, Macron will meet cold and crowded weather, but despite cold conditions, it will be received warmly.

“This is great, I must say, because we have not made visits from a president at all, which is very welcome,” says Kaj Kales.

Nuk is a small city of less than 20,000 people, and the arrival of a global leader and his entourage, is a major event.

“I think people will be curious, just hear about it,” says ARNakkuluk Jo Kleist. “I think they will be interested in it, what is his message.”

“He is the president of France, but he is also an important representative of Europe. It is a message from European countries that show support, and that Greenland is not for sale, and to the Kingdom of Denmark,” says Arkancolook Joe Calest.

“The last months have created some questions about the allies we need, as well as about the allies we need to enhance cooperation with them,” she says.

The President of France is the first high-level leader invited by the new Prime Minister in Greenland, Jens-Frederik Nielsen. The talks will focus on the security of North Atlantic and Northern Qatar in addition to climate change, economic development and critical minerals, before Macron continued at the Group 7 summit in Canada.

Danish Prime Minister Metty Friedrixen also attends the visit of the French President “another concrete certificate for European unity” amid a difficult foreign policy in recent months.

For several months, Greenland, a semi -independent Danish region of 56,000 people, was severely pressured as US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that he wanted to obtain the island rich in vast minerals, citing American security as the main reason and the main reason and Do not exclude the use of strength.

“Macron did not come to Greenland for Greenland, it is also part of a larger game, among these big powers in the world,” Cleast says.

France was among the first countries that spoke against Mr. Trump, to float an offer to deploy the forces, which rejected Denmark. Just a few days ago in The United Nations Oceanic Conference In NICE, Macron stressed that “the ocean is not for sale, Greenland is not for sale, the northern pole and there are no other seas for sale” – the words that Nelsen welcomed quickly.

“France has supported us since the first statements have come out about taking our country,” he wrote in A. Facebook Publisher. “It is necessary and enjoyable.”

Macron is believed to be a strong message in itself, it is believed that Ulrik Bram Jad, the first researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies.

“The presidential couple was not really able to get rid of him,” he says, referring to JD Vance, his wife, Usha, who is restricted in March and the lack of public connections. “This, of course, sends a message to the American public, and to Trump.”

It also highlights a transformation, as Greenland leaders unify relations with Denmark and the European Union, “because we must face allies in these problems,” says Kaj Clerest, noting our pressure.

“I think it might be the right time to come here,” Cleast added. “They can talk about defending the Arctic before the large NATO meetings … and hearing what we are looking for, in terms of cooperation and investment.”

However, opposition leader Pele Broberg believes that Greenland should have been hosting bilateral talks with France alone. “We welcome any world leader, at any time,” he says, “Unfortunately, it does not seem to be a visit to Greenland this time. It seems like a visit to Denmark.”

Relations between the United States and Denmark have grown increasingly. US Vice President JD Vance has scolded the country of the north In order to invest in the security of the region during its last trip to an American military base in the far north of Greenland. Last month, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark He called the American ambassador In Copenhagen, after a a report In the Wall Street Journal she claims that American spy agencies have been informed of the concentration of efforts on Greenland.

Then, in A hearing in Congress On Thursday, US Defense Secretary Beit Higseth was suggested under a tense interrogation that the Pentagon had prepared “emergency” plans to take Greenland by force “if necessary.”

Denmark, however, has fallen cautious. Last week, its green parliament lit up a controversial bill Allow the American forces to concentrate on the Danish soilAnd spending another $ 1.5 billion (1.1 billion pounds) to boost Greenland’s defense. This increased military presence was shown this weekend, as the Danish marine frigate sailed around the Nuk Strait and the helicopter around the city.

“Denmark has been reluctant to achieve this transformation from having a transatlantic security strategy to a more European strategy,” GAD resides, but this has changed in recent months.

With the high tensions and increased competition between global powers in the Arctic, the European Union increases its role. Earlier this month, the commercial bloc signed a deal that invests in the Greenland Graphite mine – a metal used in batteries – where it is racing to secure critical metal supplies, as well as energy resources, amid the dominance of China and Russia’s war in Ukraine.

For France, Greenland’s visit in its policy to strengthen European independence from the United States link.

“This is related, of course, the changing security situation in the North Atlantic and the Northern Pole,” he explains. “It is a strong signal. It will appear that France takes European security seriously.”