US secretary of state Marco Rubio will meet the Danish and Greelandic foreign ministers later today amid rising tensions over America’s desire to control the island. What would a US takeover mean for the future of Nato, and what do the people of Greenland make of being caught in a diplomatic tussle?

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Katie Gatens, Europe correspondent, The Sunday Times
Oliver Moody, Berlin Correspondent, The Times & the Sunday Times

Host: Manveen Rana.

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