Danes side with US against French criticism of defence deal

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has backed the US (Henning Bagger/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Denmark is siding with the United States in the dispute with its fellow EU member France over a major Indo-Pacific defence deal.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in a newspaper interview that she wants to warn against turning “concrete challenges, which will always exist between allies, into something they should not be”.