The stone facade of Copenhagen’s Christiansborg – home to Denmark’s Folketinget parliament – looked solid as ever on a grey misty Thursday morning, even as tiny political fractures spread.
Hours earlier, Denmark and Greenland presented a united front in high-stakes talks in Washington over US ambitions to control the Arctic island.
Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen conceded that a “fundamental disagreement” remained with Washington over the largely self-governing island that, for three centuries, has been part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
But the Danish visitor managed to kick the can down the road, announcing a “high-level” working group to address US…