Danes are more firmly pro-European than they have ever been in the last 20 years when Denmark assumes the presidency of the European Union; this change in opinion may be at least partially ascribed to US President Donald Trump.
According to a startling study conducted in March by the Danish daily newspaper Berlingske, 41% of Danes now perceive the US as a threat. Additionally, it stated that 92% of respondents “agree” or “mostly agree” that the Nordic country’s security depends more on the European Union than the US. Those figures might not come as a surprise given the recent hostilities between Washington and Copenhagen.
Trump has been vocal about his desire for the United States to acquire Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark, since his return to the White House. Many people view Vice President JD Vance and Trump family members’ visits to and remarks about the biggest island in the world as offensive.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen refuted Vance’s assertion that Denmark isn’t doing enough for Arctic defence after his March visit to the US military’s Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, referring to her nation as “a good and strong ally.
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