{"id":13757,"date":"2026-01-19T17:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=13757"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:24:15","slug":"danish-officials-set-to-skip-davos-as-greenland-spat-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=13757","title":{"rendered":"Danish officials set to skip Davos as Greenland spat escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"textFreeArticle\">\n<p>Danish officials have decided not to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos this week amid an intensifying dispute over Greenland that\u2019s shaking transatlantic relations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDanish government representatives were invited this year, and any decisions on attendance are a matter for the government concerned,\u201d the Forum said in a statement to Bloomberg. \u201cWe can confirm that the Danish government will not be represented in Davos this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spat with Greenland escalated over the weekend after President Donald Trump threatened to levy a tariff on goods from eight NATO allies, prompting the European Union to weigh potentially imposing tariffs on \u20ac93 billion ($108 billion) of US goods.<\/p>\n<div class=\"visible-sm-block visible-xs-block m1010\">\n<div class=\"ad-container-wrapper\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump on Saturday announced a 10% tariff starting February 1, rising to 25% in June, unless there\u2019s a deal for the \u201cpurchase of Greenland.\u201d Trump levied the threat after the countries said they would undertake token NATO military planning exercises in the semi-autonomous Danish territory in defense of the Arctic island against China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Moneyweb\u2019s in-depth finance and business news on WhatsApp here.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\">\n            !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n            {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n                n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n                if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n                n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n                t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n                'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n            fbq('init', '779812924991616');\n            fbq('track', 'PageView');\n        <\/script>#Danish #officials #set #skip #Davos #Greenland #spat #escalates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danish officials have decided &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[3409,9404,9542,5542,3870,997,4245,9541],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}