The EU's two leading members were reacting to the US president-elect's plans to acquire Denmark's autonomous territory.

There is no question of the EU letting other nations in the world, whoever they may be (...) attack its sovereign borders,' said Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot.

The European Union on Wednesday dismissed U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s refusal to rule out a military attack to take control of Denmark’s autonomous territory of Greenland as "wild hypothetical stuff,

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday publicly called out US President-elect Donald Trump over his threat to seize control of Greenland, saying "the inviolability of borders applies to every country.