The UK is “ready to play its full part” on Arctic security, Sir Keir Starmer has said, after Donald Trump pulled back on his threats to impose tariffs or take military action to bring Greenland under US control.

The prime minister spoke to the chief of NATO, Mark Rutte, and the pair discussed “the progress made by allies on Arctic security in recent days,” his spokesperson said.

“It was vital that NATO allies continued to work together to step up security cooperation in the region, they agreed,” the spokesperson added.

“The UK stood ready to play its full part, the prime minister said.”

s Trump’s Board of Peace just a power play?

In the same month he ordered strikes on Venezuela and threatened to seize Greenland, Donald Trump has been inviting countries to join his “Board of Peace”. 

The US president and disruptor-in-chief has pitched the board as a mechanism to rebuild Gaza – yet its charter does not even mention the territory. 

Russia has been invited, while still waging war on Ukraine – so what is this so-called Board of Peace? Can it achieve a lasting solution for Palestine? And is Trump trying to replace the United Nations? 

Transatlantic relationship taken ‘blow’ this week, EU’s chief diplomat says

Kaja Kallas, the EU’s top foreign affairs diplomat, has just arrived in Brussels for the emergency summit.

She tells reporters the transatlantic relationship has “definitely taken a blow” in the last week.

Disagreements between allies like the US and EU only benefit Russia, Kallas says.

Asked about Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, she adds the bloc can work with the new body if it is narrowed down to focus on Gaza.