United States President Donald Trump lashed out at Europe and confirmed his Greenland ambitions during an address to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Switzerland. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox To protect the world, Greenland must be taken over by the US, Trump insisted. However, he would not use force to achieve this, he added. Instead, he called for "immediate negotiations", without saying with whom. Denmark, to which Greenland belongs, and other European states such as Germany had always insisted that the island was not for sale. + Switzerland treads careful path with US as trade deal looms Only the US could defend "this huge piece of land", said Trump. "We need it for strategic national security and international security." The US president criticised European countries at several points in his long speech. Europe was not developing "in the right direction", he said. Certain countries were "very negatively" unrecognisable, said Trump, who did ...
