This is The Guardian.

It's kind of forced itself onto the agenda, really, after Trump's kind of smash-and-grab

raid on Nicholas Maduro.

We need Greenland from a national security situation.

The European Union needs us to have it, and they know that.

The rather sad thing is that actually Denmark has been one of the US's most loyal allies since forever.

Donald Trump has his sights set back on Greenland,

and in light of Venezuela, it's hitting different for European leaders. From The Guardian's today

in focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoth. I'm joined by John Henley, who is Europe correspondent at The Guardian, from a very snowy Paris.

Thanks so much for being with us, John. It's lovely to see you. So when Donald Trump first started talking about Greenland at the start of his presidency, it was sort of laughed off by European leaders, wasn't it?

But they are meeting in Paris today, and there is a sense that they are going to have to

start taking this a lot more seriously. Yes, absolutely. I mean, Greenland wasn't supposed to be

on the meeting in Paris today. That's mainly to deal with kind of post-ceasefire security arrangements

in Ukraine if things ever get that far. But it's kind of forced itself

onto the agenda, really, as you say, particularly, obviously, after, you know, Trump's kind of

smash and grab raid on the regime of Nicholas Maduro at the weekend. And the fact that he has

been talking even more insistently since then

about what he terms sort of the absolute need for the US to take control of Greenland.

And yeah, I mean, European leaders are clearly having to take it a lot more seriously.

Yeah, because you've got these comments from Trump himself saying that

Greenland is a country he wants very badly. But then you have others in his White House, including the very

influential White House staff for Stephen Miller, who has been openly questioning Denmark's right to

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