European Parliament calls on EU countries in NATO to summon US envoys

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, the chair of the European Parliament’s Defence Committee, has urged all EU countries in NATO to summon US ambassadors.

Strack-Zimmermann said the move would allow Europe to present a united message to Washington against any potential forceful takeover of Greenland, which she described as a regrettably possible scenario, Caliber.Az reports via Russian media.

“It is important to show the US that Europe will not stand aside and watch Greenland being seized,” she stated.

The lawmaker warned that a US attack on Greenland could effectively end NATO and expressed frustration that Washington does not take the EU seriously.

Greenland’s strategic location in the Arctic makes it a central point of geopolitical competition among major powers (US, Russia, China). The island sits between North America and Europe, hosts crucial early‑warning and missile‑defence installations, and lies along emerging Arctic shipping routes exposed by climate change.

The United States maintains the Pituffik (Thule) Space Base in Greenland under a long‑standing defence agreement with Denmark, reflecting historical and modern military cooperation; this base supports NATO’s missile defence and space surveillance network, and Greenland remains important for controlling the GIUK gap used to monitor Russian naval activity.

Denmark and Greenland firmly reject any notion of selling or ceding the island, emphasising sovereignty and self‑determination, while US interest in the territory — renewed publicly in recent political rhetoric — has sparked diplomatic pushback from Copenhagen and solidarity statements from European allies defending international law.

By Jeyhun Aghazada