Terry Schultz
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We really don't know the details yet, and I've been scanning Danish media this morning, and there are a lot of questions being raised there.
It's just been hours since we got word that there'd been a compromise at all after this fiery speech by President Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
And he hadn't indicated any such thing was coming.
So while the details haven't been made public, there are reports in The New York Times, for example, that it could include giving the U.S.
sovereignty over small pieces of Greenlandic territory, perhaps for building up more military bases there, possibly for participation in the eventual Golden Dome missile defense system.
Now, Leila, the U.S.
already has the right to expand its military presence under existing agreements with Greenland and Denmark.
But the land on which these bases would sit does not belong to the U.S.
under current arrangements.
And ownership has been such a big issue for Trump.
And he repeated that multiple times in Davos.
Let's listen to one example.
You can't defend it on a lease.
So Trump's obvious satisfaction with the compromise indicates it could very well include some limited transfer of land ownership.
And it's also expected to address U.S.
access to mineral rights.
How are European leaders reacting to the developments in Davos?
Well, there's definitely the feeling of being able to breathe a bit more easily after Trump walked back these threats of military force and imminent tariffs, which have been a feature of daily discussion here in Brussels recently.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Likker-Rasmussen summed up Wednesday saying it ended better than it started as there had been so much apprehension about what might happen in Davos.
Yeah, we're getting some early reactions from Danish and Greenlandic leaders now, and their comments are reinforcing the fact that the details of this deal, as we discussed, are very slim.