The European Union will not let other nations attack its sovereign borders, France's foreign minister said on Wednesday, responding to comments by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on taking over Greenland.

Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has stated that the European Union is prepared to take a leading role in helping Ukraine if US assistance falters. Source: European Pravda,

France ’s foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot has fiercely defended the European Union in response to US president-elect Donald Trump ’s claim that America should take “ownership and control of Greenland ”.

Top European Union diplomat Kaja Kallas said Thursday the EU would be ready to take the lead on supporting Ukraine if the United States was no longer willing.

Peter Magyar, the opposition challenger to Prime Minister Viktor Orban, told Reuters he would keep Hungary firmly anchored in the European Union and NATO if he wins elections due in early 2026 and would strive for "pragmatic relations" with Russia.

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Thursday that US President-elect Donald Trump’s remarks about Greenland and the Panama Canal are messages to other big powers, particularly China, rather than hostile claims.

France warned President-elect Donald Trump to back off from threats to the European Union’s “sovereign borders” Wednesday, a day after he declined to rule out using military force to take Greenland. “There is no question of the EU letting other nations in the world—whoever they might be—attack its sovereign borders,

Global efforts to address climate change will be dealt a severe blow if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump again pulls the country out of the Paris Agreement, the EU's head of climate change policy has warned.

The European Union must be ready to defend itself against protectionist trade measures by other countries, including any new steps taken by Donald Trump when he returns to the White House later this month,

Are you waiting for American marines to land in Greenland or what?” one journalist pressed the European Commission.