Berlin (dpa -AfX) – Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) once again condemned all territorial expansion efforts when visiting Berlin by the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen – whoever pursues it. “Limits must not be postponed by violence – to whom it may concern (to everyone who concerns),” said Scholz before he was talked to Frederiksen in the Chancellery.
In the past few weeks, the Chancellor had already spoken in a similar way to the regional claims expressed by US President Donald Trump in Panama, Canada and Greenland. “The inviolability of limits is a basic principle of international law,” he affirmed again. “The principle must apply to everyone.”
The largely autonomous Greenland belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark. Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in the world’s largest island with its extensive raw material deposits and its strategically important situation. “I think we’ll get Greenland because it really has to do with the freedom of the world,” he said at the weekend.
Upstairs in the Arctic for two billion euros
Against this background, the Danish government announced on Monday that the military presence in the Arctic and the North Atlantic with three new ships for the waters around Greenland, further long -distance roar and satellites – for almost two billion euros.
Frederiksen did not go into it in more detail in the press base with Scholz. However, it emphasized the growing importance of European cooperation. “We need a stronger and more determined Europe that is increasingly on our own feet and is able to defend and promote European interests,” she said. “It is up to Europe to define the future of our continent, and I think we have to take more responsibility for our own security.”
More stations in Paris and Brussels
After Berlin, the Danish Prime Minister also wants to visit Paris and Brussels, where she wants to meet with NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte./Mfi/dp/mis