Merz to give foreign policy speech after escalation in Greenland spat

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2026-01-29

Berlin (dpa) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is due to give a major foreign policy speech in the German parliament on Thursday, following a brief escalation in tensions over Greenland with the United States last week. US President Donald Trump had repeatedly asserted his claim to the world's largest island, which belongs to Denmark, and had threatened several European NATO allies with punitive tariffs before backing down. Last Friday, a speci......

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