Overview
- Denmark’s foreign minister said the first senior-level meeting in Washington on Greenland was “very constructive,” with more trilateral sessions planned.
- U.S. envoy Jeff Landry wrote that the post-Davos framework would expand American operational freedom, support new bases and infrastructure, and enable missile-defense deployments such as Golden Dome.
- Diplomatic reporting outlined options that preserve Danish sovereignty while granting U.S. sovereignty over bases, permitting additional sites with a Danish veto, and giving Washington first refusal on resource projects, alongside a possible NATO Arctic mission.
- European leaders lined up behind Copenhagen and Nuuk, with France’s Emmanuel Macron declaring in Greenlandic that the island is neither for sale nor to be taken.
- Greenland announced a population mental-health survey as Denmark set a Feb. 18–20 visit by King Frederik X intended to reassure residents.