European allies working on plan if US acts on acquiring Greenland: report

European allies are moving unneurotic connected a program if the Trump medication acts connected acquiring Greenland, a study said Wednesday. 

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told France Inter vigor that the taxable volition beryllium raised astatine a gathering with the overseas ministers of Germany and Poland. 

"We privation to instrumentality action, but we privation to bash truthful unneurotic with our European partners," Barrot said, according to Reuters.

A German authorities root besides told Reuters that Germany is "closely moving unneurotic with different European countries and Denmark connected the adjacent steps regarding Greenland."

WHITE HOUSE SAYS ‘RANGE OF OPTIONS,’ INCLUDING US MILITARY, ON TABLE AS TRUMP RENEWS PUSH TO ACQUIRE GREENLAND

Danish troops signifier looking for imaginable threats during a subject drill successful Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, connected Sept. 17, 2025.  (Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters)

The White House said connected Tuesday that President Donald Trump views acquiring Greenland arsenic a nationalist information precedence and that the usage of the U.S. military remains an option as his medication weighs however to prosecute power of the Arctic territory.

"President Trump has made it good known that acquiring Greenland is simply a nationalist information precedence of the United States," White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said successful a connection to Fox News.  

"The President and his squad are discussing a scope of options to prosecute this important overseas argumentation goal, and of course, utilizing the U.S. Military is ever an enactment astatine the Commander successful Chief’s disposal," she added. 

When asked for a effect Wednesday to the Reuters report, the White House referred Fox News Digital to Leavitt's remarks.

TRUMP GREENLAND TAKEOVER WOULD END NATO, DENMARK ASSERTS

Ice covers the h2o successful the harbor successful Ilulissat, Greenland, connected March 8, 2025. (Joe Raedle/Getty)

Trump told reporters connected Air Force One implicit the play that the U.S. needs Greenland, a Danish territory, for "national security." 

European and Nordic leaders pushed backmost against the comments, with Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Denmark’s Ambassador to the United States Jesper Møller Sørensen underscoring their enactment for Denmark’s sovereignty implicit Greenland and stressing that its aboriginal indispensable be determined by Greenland and Denmark alone.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen connected Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, warned astir the implications of President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Kirsty Wigglesworth - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

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A elder European authoritative told Reuters connected Wednesday that Denmark indispensable pb immoderate effort to coordinate a effect and "the Danes person yet to pass to their European allies what benignant of factual enactment they privation to receive." 

Fox News Digital’s Jasmine Baehr and Ashley Carnahan contributed to this report.