{"id":368072,"date":"2026-01-13T21:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368072\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T21:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:33:07","slug":"greenland-takes-its-pleas-to-uk-parliament-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368072\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenland takes its pleas to UK parliament \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve\u00a0been saying for years now: With Greenland, we\u00a0can&#8217;t\u00a0see it as a small country. \u2029It might be a small country population-wise, but it is a geopolitical giant\u00a0that&#8217;s\u00a0getting hotter by the day,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Menezes urged ministers to prioritize free trade talks with Greenland. \u201cIt&#8217;s\u00a0one thing we can do to\u00a0demonstrate\u00a0that, you know, we take it seriously. It is action, and not just words.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nathanielsen said she was meeting a trade minister from the Labour government, Chris Bryant,\u00a0later on\u00a0Tuesday, as part of \u201cvery early discussions\u201d on a possible free trade agreement between the two countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, when hopefully all of this cools down a bit, that you continue your collaboration investments in Greenland, we are quite happy about your partnerships,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Big days<\/p>\n<p>But the future of Greenland, she acknowledged, may not lie in its own hands.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign ministers from Greenland and Denmark are set to meet U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI&#8217;ve\u00a0been saying for years now: With Greenland, we\u00a0can&#8217;t\u00a0see it as a small country. \u2029It might be a small&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[140761,891,41285,3602,141,59,57,58,6232,15025,420,16420,123282,151,50,547,470,154,1351,426,2366,56,54,158,55],"class_list":["post-368072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-brendan-ohara","tag-china","tag-chris-bryant","tag-denmark","tag-donald-trump","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-greenland","tag-jd-vance","tag-keir-starmer","tag-marco-rubio","tag-mette-frederiksen","tag-military","tag-news","tag-research","tag-rights","tag-russia","tag-security","tag-trade","tag-trade-agreements","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}