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Denmark's Foreign Minister said connected Thursday (January 29, 2026) helium was "more optimistic" aft method talks kicked disconnected with the United States implicit Greenland.
"We person had the precise archetypal gathering astatine elder authoritative level successful Washington yesterday regarding the Greenlandic issue," Lars Lokke Rasmussen told journalists astatine an EU gathering successful Brussels.
"It went good successful a precise constructive ambiance and tone, and caller meetings are planned. It's not that things are solved, but it's good."
The trilateral talks travel aft U.S. President Donald Trump past week backed down from his threats to prehend the autonomous Arctic territory of EU and NATO subordinate Denmark.
"There was a large detour. Things were escalating, but present we are backmost connected track," Mr. Rasmussen said. "I'm somewhat much optimistic contiguous than a week ago."
Mr. Trump's threats implicit Greenland plunged the transtatlantic confederation into its deepest situation successful years.
The unpredictable U.S. person backed disconnected his tendency to instrumentality power of Greenland aft saying helium had struck a "framework" woody with NATO main Mark Rutte to guarantee greater American influence.
But fewer factual details look to person been agreed — with authorities successful Denmark and Greenland refusing to sermon handing implicit immoderate sovereignty.
"I person stated connected galore occasions, we, of course, stock the U.S. information concerns regarding the Arctic, this is thing we privation to lick successful adjacent cooperation," Mr. Rasmussen said.
As portion of the compromise with Washington NATO is expected to bolster its activities successful the Arctic, portion Denmark and Greenland could renegotiate a 1951 pact connected US unit deployments.
