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Trump Triggers a Crisis in Denmark—And Europe

Posted on the 18 January 2025 by Phil's Stock World @philstockworld

What a single phone call from the president-elect did to an unswerving American ally

By Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic

What did Donald Trump say over the phone to Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, on Wednesday? I don't know which precise words he used, but I witnessed their impact. I arrived in Copenhagen the day after the call-the subject, of course, was the future of Greenland, which Denmark owns and which Trump wants-and discovered that appointments I had with Danish politicians were suddenly in danger of being canceled. Amid Frederiksen's emergency meeting with business leaders, her foreign minister's emergency meeting with party leaders, and an additional emergency meeting of the foreign-affairs committee in Parliament, everything, all of a sudden, was in complete flux.

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