"Greenland is not just a territory in a key region of the world map, and the land rich in critical raw materials, a strategic outpost on emerging global sea routes. It's all of these things, but above all, Greenland is home to a free and sovereign people. It is a nation with its sovereignty and its right to territorial integrity, and the future of Greenland is only for the Greenlanders to decide, she said."
"She said that Europe needed to realise we now live in a world defined by raw power, adding that in this increasingly lawless world, Europe needs its own levers of power and abandon its traditional caution to build on its economic might and become more independent. Speaking at the European parliament's plenary session in Strasbourg, von der Leyen also repeated the key lines from her Davos speech yesterday,"
Europe must transform how it thinks and acts to address a rapidly changing world order increasingly defined by raw power. The bloc needs its own levers of power, must abandon traditional caution, build on economic might and become more independent. Greenland holds strategic value as land rich in critical raw materials and as an outpost on emerging global sea routes, but it is primarily home to a free, sovereign people entitled to territorial integrity. Threats such as potential US tariffs over Greenland risk damaging relations and emboldening adversaries. Continued focus on and support for Ukraine remains imperative.
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