Max Colchester

So if those tariffs that Trump is threatening on February 1st come into play, they can't just sit back and swallow them.

So there is increasing pressure on European leaders to reflect that public anger at this move on Greenland.

So they will come under pressure to actually bare teeth against the U.S.

Yeah, so I flew to Nuuk, which is the capital of Greenland, which is on the western coast.

And I think it's hard really to get a sense across really how big Greenland is and how empty it is.

I mean, when you fly over Greenland from Europe at least, it's massive.

And it looks like the moon.

It's this huge frozen expanse.

It's nearly like sci-fi when you approach Nuke.

And this is a country which is slightly bigger than Mexico.

It is 80% ice.

It has a very tiny population of around 57,000 people who live mainly on the coast, the southwestern coast, because the rest is ice.

There's less than 100 miles of paved road in Greenland.

So this is a very, like...

sparsely populated and for a large part inhospitable place.

It's a very small one.

The workforce is 29,000 people, which is the size of a tiny town.

Its biggest export is shrimp, halibut and cod.

98% of Greenlandic exports are fish or fishing produce.

It's just very small.