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The Guardian // World // Europe

Europe’s moment of truth over Greenland looms, as leaders ditch appeasement of Trump

Wednesday 21st January 2026, 4:20PM

From the ‘big bazooka’ to a world cup boycott, Europe has powerful weapons beyond dialogue. An emergency EU summit could be a turning point• Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here“I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland,” wrote Emmanuel Macron in a private message to Donald Trump this week. Trump posted the text on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday, seemingly to humiliate the French president. But Macron might have been speaking for millions of bewildered European citizens.As Russia’s war physically tears into Ukraine, Trump’s phoney war on Europe over Greenland risks breaking apart the western defence alliance Nato. Continue reading...

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