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France on Wednesday warned Donald Trump against threatening "sovereign borders" after the US president-elect refused to rule out military action to take Greenland, an autonomous territory of European Union member Denmark.
"There is no question of the EU letting other nations in the world, whoever they may be... attack its sovereign borders," French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told France Inter radio.
"We are a strong continent. We need to strengthen ourselves more," he added..
Barrot described Greenland as "European territory". Greenland is associated with the European Union through Denmark, of which it is a self-governing territory, but withdrew from the European bloc in 1985 after securing autonomy.
Trump set off new alarm on Tuesday at a press conference when he refused to rule out military intervention over the Panama Canal and Greenland, both of which he has said he wants the United States to control.
"We need Greenland for national security purposes," he declared.
His comments coincided with a private visit by his son Donald Trump Jr. to the mineral- and oil-rich autonomous Danish territory on Tuesday.
"If you ask me: 'is the United States going to invade Greenland?' the answer is no," said Barrot.
But he added: "We have entered an era that is seeing the return of the law of the strongest."
"Should we be intimidated? Should we be overcome with worry? Evidently, no.
"We need to wake up and reinforce ourselves, militarily, in competition, in a world where the law of the strongest prevails."
Barrot said he believed that the United States is "inherently not imperialistic" and said he "did not believe" that it is changing.
However French government spokeswoman Sophie Primas told reporters after a cabinet meeting that there was a "form of imperialism" in Trump's comments.
"Today we are seeing the rise in blocs, we can see this as a form of imperialism, which materialises itself in the statements that we saw from Mr Trump on the annexation of an entire territory."
"More than ever, we and our European partners need to be conscious, to get away from a form of naivety, to protect ourselves, to rearm," she added.
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