Emmanuel Macron flies in to show his support for Greenland
A message to Donald Trump—and to Europe
THERE ARE two ways of looking at the trip made by Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, to Greenland on June 15th. At one level it was a defiant message to America’s Donald Trump, who continues to threaten to annex the island, a semi-autonomous territory that belongs to Denmark. The symbolism was certainly stark: Mr Macron’s plane touched down on the way to see Mr Trump at the G7 meeting near Calgary, in Canada. The seizing of territory, declared Mr Macron sternly after stepping on to the tarmac in Nuuk, the capital, is “not what allies do”.
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