The United States and Denmark offered drastically different perspectives regarding a meeting on the sidelines of the NATO conference happening in Brussels. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen in Brussels on Thursday amid the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting.

The Danish Prime Minister said that, if the U.S. wants to strengthen security in the Arctic, “let us do so together.”

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called on Thursday for increased Arctic defence collaboration with the United States during a visit to Greenland, and firmly dismissed the U.S. desire to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory.

Marco Rubio is visiting NATO's headquarters for a meeting of foreign ministers, putting him on the front lines of the Trump administration's push against U.S. allies.

The secretary of state’s trip comes amid an abrupt shift in relations between the United States and Europe after close cooperation during the Biden era.

Rubio arrives in Brussels on Thursday for two days of meetings with his NATO counterparts and European officials, and he can expect to be confronted with questions about the future U.S. role in the alliance. With him on the trip will be newly confirmed U.S. ambassador to NATO Matt Whitaker.

Washington wants to see European countries increase defence spending to five per cent, the US secretary of state said

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump administration’s new envoy to NATO are seeking to reassure wary NATO allies of the U.S. commitment to the alliance.

The United States is as committed to NATO as ever but demands that European allies spend substantially more on defence, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday, while adding that the U.S.