NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will meet ministers from Denmark and Greenland on Monday amid the escalating dispute between Europeans and the United States over Greenland. Greenland's Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt and Denmark's Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen will attend the meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

European lawmakers said tariffs endangered the trade deal, urging suspension of the US–EU pact over Donald Trump's coercive stance

In a joint statement, leaders of eight countries said they stand in "full solidarity" with Denmark and Greenland. Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen added: "Europe will not be blackmailed."

European Union ambassadors held an emergency meeting on Sunday, and leaders from across the 27-nation bloc will meet in Brussels later this week.

Nathalie Tocci, director of the Institute of International Affairs in Italy, described Trump as pursuing a policy that is “consistently imperial” which will allow other empires, such as Russia and China, to flourish. Tocci added, “Certainly it’s more comfortable for Putin and Xi Jinping to be their imperial selves where that’s the new norm.”

The aggressor country Russia is exhausted by the war in Ukraine and cannot pose a large-scale military threat to NATO. However, the Kremlin is capable of challenging Article 5. This was told in an interview aired on "Studio West" by Pekka Toveri, the former head of Finnish military intelligence and a member of the European Parliament.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday that calm discussion between allies was needed on Greenland and that a trade war was not in anyone's interest, after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs to secure the territory.