NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, onstage in Davos, said commenting on Greenland would undermine his honest-broker role. Asked about unprecedented tensions inside the alliance due to President Trump’s demand that founding member Denmark relinquish Greenland to U.

The planned reductions to parts of the alliance’s force structure and some advisory groups mark the Trump administration’s latest move to scale back military investment in Europe’s defense.

As part of the move, which the Trump administration has communicated to some European capitals, the U.S. will eliminate roughly 200 positions from the NATO entities that oversee and plan the alliance's military and intelligence operations, said the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss private diplomatic conversations.

Trans-Atlantic Tensions: President Trump is expected to speak on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as his aggressive push to acquire Greenland and threats of new tariffs strain U.S.-European ties. NATO’s secretary general and the leaders of Spain and Finland will also address the gathering. Read more ›

The US president earlier said Nato would be in "the ash heap of history" without him, after doubling down on his Greenland demands.

The United States and NATO will come to an agreement on the future of Greenland that will satisfy both sides, U.S. President Donald Trump told a press conference on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, Trump had said there was "no going back" on his goal to control Greenland,

French President Emmanuel Macron and NATO head Mark Rutte have sent text messages to U.S. President Donald Trump.

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Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland are casting a united front after Trump threatens tariffs.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the bid by U.S. President Donald Trump to take over Greenland poses a “deep crisis” for NATO and raises questions about the alliance’s preservation as a single military-political bloc.

Trump has long said he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who recently won the prize for her fight for democracy, gave her prize medal to Trump. But the Norwegian Nobel Committee said the award can’t be revoked, shared or transferred.