Trump and European Leaders Set To Clash at Davos

Financial Times is reporting that European leaders slated to travel to the Davos Economic Forum this week have scrapped their “position papers” on Ukraine and are now focused on discussing the issue of Greenland’s future with the U.S. President. The Danish government, which is the country most directly affected by any U.S. takeover of Greenland, will boycott the meeting entirely. While British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in a speech on Jan. 18, urged that the conflict be resolved through dialogue, it also appears that the European leaders are prepared to outline countermeasures to the tariffs threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump if no agreement is reached on the issue of Greenland. The national security advisers of these countries met on the afternoon of Jan. 19. Their topic was also to have been Ukraine, but the discussion here was also concentrated on the Greenland issue.