French President Emmanuel Macron continued his intervention into the matter of Greenland on Wednesday, pronouncing that the Arctic island is neither for sale nor for the taking.
Despite Greenland not being a member of the European Union, President Macron has taken an outsized interest into the ongoing dispute between Copenhagen and Washington, in an apparent attempt to appear tough against U.S. President Donald Trump on the world stage and avoid the domestic issues ravaging France.
On Wednesday, the French leader hosted Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and the Prime Minister of Greenland Jens-Frederik Nielsen at the Élysée Palace in Paris.
Still bespectacled behind the infamous aviator shades he debuted last week in front of the world at Davos, Mr Macron declared in Greenlandic
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