France reproaches Trump over Greenland invasion comments

FranceFrance’s foreign minister and Germany’s chancellor have pushed back against Donald Trump’s refusal to rule out military force to gain control of Greenland and the Panama Canal, reports Politico.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz criticized what he called an American “lack of understanding” of the principle of the inviolability of borders “with regard to recent statements of the USA.”

Europeans have had mixed responses to Trump’s incendiary Tuesday press conference, with some leaders downplaying his statement on Greenland as unserious and others rebuking the president-elect more robustly.

Barrot deployed a mix of the two approaches — saying on French radio that it is “out of the question that the European Union would let other countries … attack its sovereign borders, whoever they are,” but adding that he did not believe Trump would actually invade Greenland.

Read more of this report from Politico.