Source: International Business Times
Macron will discuss Arctic security and the melting of glaciers, his team said AFP French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Greenland on Sunday carrying a message of "European solidarity and support" for the Danish autonomous territory coveted by US President Donald Trump, located at the crossroads of the Atlantic and the Arctic. Macron will be the first foreign head of state to set foot on the vast territory -- roughly nine times larger than the UK, with 80 percent of its area covered in ice -- since Trump's annexation threats. Trump has repeatedly said the US needs the strategically located, resource-rich Arctic island for security reasons, and has refused to rule out the use of force to secure it.
