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US President Donald Trump’s administration recently hailed the “influence it is exerting on patriotic European parties”, but many party leaders have distanced themselves from aggressive attempts to annex Greenland to the United States.
Trump has disputed Denmark’s centuries-old territorial claim to Greenland, and the threat has sparked anger and diplomatic maneuvering among European leaders, a mix of liberals and traditional conservatives.
Those concerns have not been accepted by far-right parties, who have viewed the US administration favorably on various issues.
The second Trump presidency sent a signal of a new approach to Europe in the first weeks, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegsett. Attacking the security situation in the continent And Vice President JD Vance has become embroiled in the domestic politics of some of Europe’s key allies to a degree not seen in recent US presidential administrations.
Last February, a few days before the German federal election. Vance met Alice WeidelFar-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader. Vance criticized a German intelligence report that labeled the anti-immigration AfD an “extremist” group.
Speaking in recent days, Weidel said Trump’s Greenland stance violated “a basic campaign promise — non-interference in other countries.” At the same news conference, AfD chairman Tino Krupala accused Trump of “wild west tactics.”
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Farage criticized the ‘very hateful act’
Violent American statements, in it Military options have not been ruled outIn the year A 1951 agreement between the US and Denmark created confusion and consternation in Europe as Washington gave Denmark and Greenland the right to move freely and build military bases in Greenland as long as they did not notify them.
Trump signaled his willingness to impose new tariffs on several countries over the Greenland dispute this weekend, leading EU officials to consider countermeasures including retaliatory tariffs and so-called “bazookas.” His anti-coercion tool.
Britain is no longer part of the European Union, a campaign effort by Nigel Farage in 2016, supported by Trump.
But Farage – now leader of the Reform UK party – has also spoken out against what he described as an “act of hate” from the US.
“Friends can agree privately, and that’s fine. It’s part of life, it’s part of politics,” Farage told Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday. Judge, His GB news program. But to threaten tariffs until we agree that the US president will take over Greenland, somehow without the consent of the people of Greenland, seems like a very hateful thing to do. There is no other way I can describe it.
Johnson tried to downplay the concerns in a speech on Tuesday to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States’ independence from British rule.
“As friends we have always been able to resolve our differences amicably. We will continue to do that, I can assure you this morning,” Johnson told lawmakers in the British Parliament.
Trump last week announced proposed tariffs on eight countries, including the UK, which has sent a small number of troops to Greenland, after the US president repeatedly said Denmark wants to control the vast Arctic island. Trump said the 10 percent tariff would take effect on February 1 and rise to 25 percent on June 1.
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France is among the eight countries hoping for those tariffs. Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron They have been able to establish a working relationship since 2017. Macron’s opponents also spent.
Trump was fast last year Criticizing a court decision. This is likely to prevent Macron’s biggest rival, Marine Le Pen, of the National Rally (RN) from running in the next election.
In the year National Rally’s Jordan Bardella, who is running in Le Pen’s absence when Macron leaves office in 2027, said last month that they had a US national security strategy document that angered some allies. That Trump administration document not only raised old concerns about Europe’s military spending and economic performance, but also cited Bardella’s pet issue of “the prospect of the destruction of civilization” due to uncontrolled migration across the continent.
The US document praised the “growing influence of the nationalist European parties[which]gives us great optimism.”
European leaders have warned of a ‘dangerous downward spiral’ as they stand united against US President Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on countries that oppose his bid to annex Greenland.
Now Bardella is calling for the EU to end the trade deal it struck with the US last summer over the Greenland issue.
“Donald Trump’s threat to national sovereignty is unacceptable,” Bardella wrote on social media on Sunday, days after criticizing Trump’s “imperialist ambitions” in Greenland and Venezuela.
Fidesz says the EU should not be involved.
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the G7 country Trump has clashed with, was more respectful in her public language over the weekend. Even if you say that I told the President of the United States. Personally, that new tariffs will be “wrong.”
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Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday that the Hungarian government does not regard Greenland as an EU issue. Instead, Hungary views the island as a “bilateral issue that can be resolved through dialogue between the two sides,” he said, referring to the US and Denmark.