The European Union’s top general has said the bloc should deploy troops to Greenland after Donald Trump suggested he could seize the territory. General Robert Brieger, the Austrian head of the bloc’s military committee, claimed the move would send a “strong signal”, as well as act as a deterrent to Russian and Chinese activities.

The top European Union military official, Robert Brieger, said it would make sense to station troops from EU countries in Greenland, according to an interview with Germany's Welt am Sonntag published on Saturday,

The recent tensions surrounding US President Donald Trump’s interest in acquiring Greenland have sparked an important dialogue on sovereignty and the consequences of ignoring it in modern geopolitics.