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NATO chief Rutte ‘may have explained to Trump existing US rights in Greenland’

January 21, 2026 at 21:55Z
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France 24
20:49Z

‘There really are no substantive concessions that Mark Rutte could have given Trump’, FRANCE 24’s Brussels correspondent Dave Keating explains, adding that the NATO chief may ‘have just explained to Trump the existing rights that the US has in Greenland and sold this to Trump as something new’. Trump cancelled his tariff threat on several European nations after coming to terms with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on a “framework of a future deal” on Arctic security.

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