"Trump caused jitters across the western world when he ramped up calls for the US to take control of Greenland, a Danish territory in the Arctic, on national security grounds and threatened to impose 10% import taxes on eight countries including the UK. But the US president has now abandoned talk of a trade war after meeting Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte at Davos, saying the pair had come to an agreement over a potential deal on Arctic security."
""Now we can start hard yards and finding a way forward on security in the Arctic, which may seem a long way away, pretty remote, but actually it does matter to all of us in terms of the safety and security of our country," "And we've got through the last few days with a mix of British pragmatism, common sense, but also that British sense of sticking to our values and our principles. "But now, as I say, the hard yards of actually finding a better way for security for our country, for Europe and across the globe.""
US President Donald Trump escalated calls for the US to take control of Greenland on national security grounds and threatened 10% import taxes on eight countries including the UK. Trump met Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte at Davos and the two reportedly agreed a potential Arctic security framework, after which the tariff threat was lifted. Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed the lifting of tariffs and urged work on Arctic security. The proposed framework may involve mineral rights in Greenland. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said she was not aware of any discussions about Greenland's rare earth mineral reserves, which are important for mobile phones and electric vehicles.
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