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Macron Offers Aid For Greenland Security Amid Trump Threats

Emmanuel Macron, from left, Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Mette Frederiksen attend a joint press conference in Nuuk, Greenland, on June 15.

Photographer: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images

Takeaways

President Emmanuel Macron said France would be available to conduct joint exercises to improve security in Greenland, the Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump.

“Greenland is subject to preying ambitions,” Macron told reporters in Nuuk, Greenland, Sunday alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. “Everyone thinks — in France and in the EU — that Greenland shall neither be sold nor taken.”