In Greenland, Emmanuel Macron expresses European solidarity and criticizes the will to annex Donald Trump

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During his visit to the Arctic Island, the French president expressed his disagreement with the will of the American president to seize the autonomous territory, believing that “this is not what is done between allies”.

Emmanuel Macron expressed, Sunday, June 15, his disagreement with Donald Trump’s desire to annex Greenland, upon his arrival for a visit to the Danish autonomous territory. Mr. Macron also expressed “European solidarity” towards this territory, during his visit to the Arctic Island.

Mr. Macron is the first foreign head of state to set foot in this territory, large as four times France and covered with 80 % ice, since the annexes of Mr. Trump. The French president arrived around 11:20 am (2:20 p.m. Paris time) in Nuuk where dozens of Greenlanders awaited him on his descent from the plane by waving a flag of Greenland.

“I come (…) to say the solidarity of France and the European Union for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of this territory and to meet the challenges which are those of economic growth, climate emergency, education,” said Macron, in the presence of the Danish Prime Minister Put Frederiksen and the head of the Greenlandic government, Jens-Frederik Nielsen.