JUST IN: Trump-Greenland latest: US president claims Nato deal will give him ‘total access’ as Danish PM visits island

Donald Trump says the deal he claims to have reached on Greenland will give the US “total” and indefinite access to the Danish territory.

Speaking to reporters on his way back from Davos, Trump said the deal would be “much more generous to the United States, so much more generous”, while skirting questions on the territory’s sovereignty.

Greenland’s prime minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen welcomed Trump’s decision earlier this week to rule out military action but said “I don’t know what there is in the agreement, or the deal, about my country.”

Greenlandic MPs have raised concerns that Nato and the US are negotiating a deal without their input, and say Greenland must be at the table on discussions around its future.

Meanwhile, Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen was headed to the territory on Friday to speak with Greenlandic leader Jens-Frederik Nielsen, after visiting Keir Starmer in the UK on Thursday.

European leaders welcomed the winding down of tensions with Washington over Greenland, but were still shaken on Friday after Donald Trump cast doubt on Nato’s commitment to the US, claiming allied troops who came to America’s aid after 9/11 stayed “off the frontlines” in Afghanistans