Europe is prepared to strengthen security in the Arctic and that's why Finland and seven other countries sent liaison officers to Greenland, Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen (NCP) said, according to tabloid Iltalehti.
Valtonen made the statement in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum (WEF), where she is representing Finland, alongside President Alexander Stubb and Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Ville Tavio (Finns).
They joined around 60 heads of state and government, global business leaders and 3,000 participants from 130 countries.
But, US President Donald Trump's arrival at the conference on Wednesday was delayed, after Air Force One turned back due to a "minor electrical issue", according to the New York Times, among other outlets. The White House said Trump would take another plane to Davos.
Trump has said that he plans to hold a meeting at the conference about the US acquiring Greenland. Trump has said there are risks that China or Russia would simply take over Greenland if the US doesn't.
Reacting to Trump's repeated annexation threats, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the UK, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands sent military personnel to Greenland as part of "Operation Arctic Endurance", a Danish-led exercise. For its part, Finland sent two officers to Greenland, but currently does not plan to send more military personnel.
That move sparked Trump to threaten those eight countries with punitive tariffs. But according to Valtonen, a trade war would harm people on both sides of the Atlantic.
She said European countries are prepared to strengthen Arctic security, which is why the officers were sent there, and that the notion of Chinese or Russian troops swarming Greenland was a "hypothetical threat", according to Iltalehti.
Among other things, the increasingly sticky issue has caused concerns about the future of Nato.
Despite this, Valtonen said she believes the dispute can be resolved through diplomacy and boosting defence in the region. She also sent a clear message to the US.
"I hope this is a moment when Americans will think about which side of history they want to be on," she said, according to the paper.
US cloud over Finland
Amid the hitherto diplomatic crisis, security expert and non-fiction author Petteri Järvinen suggested that Trump could effectively shut down Finland's access to the internet within an hour, according to another Iltalehti article on Wednesday.
According to Järvinen, around 70 percent of the cloud services Europe uses are provided by US tech giants Microsoft, Amazon or Google.
"Finland would certainly close down if Trump could shut everything down with some kind of executive order," Järvinen told the paper.
Being cut-off from American cloud service would cause widespread problems across "every sector of society," the paper suggested — from government to healthcare.
Technologically, such a scenario would, Järvinen said, take Europe back to the 1990s.
As a solution to such a possibility, he advised that Europe and Finland become more self-sufficient technologically. The paper noted that the tech aspect of the increased tensions is being noted in other countries.
For example, in Sweden, an editorial in the Expressen newspaper suggested that Trump could "shut down Sweden in an hour".
Opposition's top position
In decidedly domestic news, Helsingin Sanomat's new political party support survey found the opposition Social Democrats are still most popular.
Twenty five percent of respondents said that if a parliamentary election were to be held right now, they would vote for the SDP.
While there were subtle differences to its survey in December, this month, support for Prime Minister Petteri Orpo's National Coalition Party (18%) reached its lowest point since the coalition government's term began, the paper noted.
Support for the Finns Party — the poll's fourth most popular and the government's second-largest coalition — was up very slightly (0.3 percentage points).
But percentage-wise the biggest change was seen in support for two opposition parties. The Left Alliance saw support rise by half a percentage point (to 10% support) while the Centre Party saw half a point decline (to 14.3%).
HS' poll was conducted by Verian, and queried just over 4,000 people from 15 December 2025 - 19 January, via an online survey.
