T HERE ARE two ways of looking at the trip made by Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, to Greenland on June 15th. At one level it was a defiant message to America’s Donald Trump, who continues to threaten to annex the island,

French President Emmanuel Macron has landed in Greenland, the Danish territory coveted by Trump, carrying a 'message of solidarity and friendship' from France and the European Union.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s first trip to Greenland is aimed at shoring up Europe’s political backing for Denmark and its semiautonomous territory.