National borders and the sovereignty of states are rooted in international law … You cannot annex other countries,” Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a joint statement.
“Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders, and the US should not take over Greenland,” they said.
Trump on Sunday appointed the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, as US special envoy to the vast, mineral-rich Arctic island.
Von der Leyen and Costa added that the EU stood “in full solidarity with Denmark and the people of Greenland”.
View image in fullscreen Jeff Landry speaks as Donald Trump listens in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in March.
Aaja Chemnitz, a Greenlandic member of the Danish parliament, said the appointment of a US envoy was not in itself a problem.
Donald Trump Jr visited the capital, Nuuk, in January and the vice-president, JD Vance, toured a US military base in March. »