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Rutte's initiative angers Europe: There was no mandate to negotiate with Trump

2026-01-23 18:52:35Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Rutte's initiative angers Europe: There was no mandate to negotiate with
Rutte and Trump

Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen has been blunt. “Rutte cannot negotiate for us,” he said. The statement is not just a clarification, but a clear distancing from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and it is not just about the Greenland issue.

There has been dissatisfaction within the European Union over Rutte's stance towards US President Donald Trump, considered by some leaders to be too submissive.

This assessment also led to a significant decision: Rutte was not invited to the informal European Council held the day before. Although he is not formally part of this forum, he has participated on other occasions. This time, his absence was seen as deliberate, as the meeting would have been an opportunity to report on the talks with Trump and the hypothesis of an agreement on Greenland. The decision of the President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, is not considered accidental, especially after the ongoing doubts about Rutte's closeness to the White House, reinforced by the nickname "babush" that he had given Trump months earlier.

European sources emphasize that the NATO Secretary General has not received a formal mandate to negotiate this issue with the American president. He has had telephone contacts with Antonio Costa, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron, from whom he has received instructions only on the “red lines” that should not be crossed, but not on the content of any agreement. For this reason, in Brussels, both in the Commission and in the Council, no one is aware of the concrete details of what may have been discussed with Trump, which has increased suspicions.

Although Europeans are relieved that Washington backed down, avoiding a new trade war and a potential clash within NATO, they attribute this not to Rutte’s mediation skills but to the EU’s “strong stance.” There has been no public thanks for the former Dutch prime minister.

Voices from Denmark and Greenland confirm the cold climate. Greenland's Prime Minister, Jens-Frederick Nielsen, stressed that "no one other than Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark has a mandate to conclude an agreement on Greenland without us". Greenland's Foreign Minister, Viviane Motzfeldt, also warned that "no agreement is reached without our participation and we still have to express our reservations". Meanwhile, Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen underlined that Denmark has "red lines" and that sovereignty is not negotiable, but added that the country is open to discussions with the US on strengthening cooperation on security in the Arctic.

The meetings are now expected to continue in a trilateral format: USA-Denmark-Greenland. For his part, Mark Rutte declared that "Donald Trump's words can be trusted", a conviction that, according to many European leaders, is not shared in the same way. In Europe, defensive measures are being prepared, as the fear that Trump could change his position again is not considered far-fetched. Transatlantic relations, according to assessments in Brussels, have changed forever. /La Repubblica


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