Trump's remarks on Greenland - a largely autonomous Danish territory - have drawn a warning from European leaders. EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas has stressed that "we have to respect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Greenland",

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed scepticism that the US would seek to forcibly annex foreign territories, despite US president-elect Donald Trump’s recent refusal to rule out the use of military force to take the Panama Canal or Greenland.