
Mette Frederiksen, Danish Prime Minister, made a fiery remarks saying, “The old world order is gone, and it will probably not come back, so we have to build something new and it has to be a world order that is built on the values that we represent the leaders standing in front of you today.”
Frederiksen made the statement during a joint prwss conference with leaders at the Nordic-Canadian Prime Ministers’ meeting in Oslo calling for greater unity.
Frederiksen said, “”We have had a totally unacceptable pressure from US and the US president. It has been very difficult for the people in Greenland to experience this and one of the reasons why we have been able to stand firmly on very common value uses that you have to respect sovereign states, that you have to respect a people’s right for self-determination, is because of our good friends.”
Frederiksen has staked her leadership on defying US President Donald Trump over Greenland. Convincing voters at home to give her a third term is proving harder.
She heads into a March 24 general election betting that her defiant stand over the Arctic island will overcome growing doubts about whether she has paid enough attention to a cost-of-living crisis in Denmark.
Frederiksen, whose Social Democrats suffered a historic defeat in municipal elections last November, has seen a revival this year which could make her Denmark’s longest-serving leader since World War Two if she completes another full term.
Support for the Social Democrats plummeted to 17% in December opinion polls, well below the 28% it won in 2022, before rebounding to around 22% in recent weeks amid what many Danes said was resolute handling of the Greenland dispute.
