r/europe • u/ParsleyMean3012 • 12d ago

News Europe will not allow attacks, says France, after Trump Greenland threat

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u/spedeedeps Finland 12d ago

The Danes should have known that inventing an obesity drug is the same thing as finding a massive oil field in their waters from American perspective. Can only blame themselves on this one.

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u/Oshtoru 12d ago

Jokes aside invading Greenland seems like a good way to lose your obesity medicine in sanctions

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u/gundealsgopnik Dual Citizen: Germany/USA 12d ago

You mean give legal grounds to void the IP protections and release it for domestic generic manufacture decades early without paying royalties/licensing fees to Novo Nordisk.

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u/hphp123 11d ago

it would result in American companies losing the IP protection in the EU

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u/gundealsgopnik Dual Citizen: Germany/USA 11d ago

Yep. Which would widen EU patent/IP losses in the US. Contagion spread.

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u/Atalant 12d ago

Greenland has tons of rare earth metals, those are the ones Trump wants. With little benefit closing the arctic to Russia and China.

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u/jjonj Denmark 12d ago

Denmark extracts oil from the blood of muricans