Just hours after Denmark’s Chief of Defence offered a permanent presence of Danish soldiers in Greenland, Trump announced that a security agreement had been concluded with Denmark granting the US full rights and a veto against the entry of foreign nations. The agreement has no expiry date. Trump appears to have got everything he asked for, and Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is not protesting. It came as a surprise.
What happened in Ceuta at the end of July 2026 was no ‘migration crisis’ in the ordinary sense – it was a controlled, large-scale border violation in which the Spanish authorities allowed themselves to be caught off guard despite warnings. It was a direct attack on Spain’s, and thus the whole of Schengen’s, territorial sovereignty, carried out by a cynical autocracy that uses people as weapons.
