Key Highlights
- Oke Göttlich, the president of Bundesliga club St.
- Pauli and one of the German federation's 10 vice-presidents, told the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper in an interview on Friday (January 23, 2026) that "the time has come" to "seriously consider and discuss this." Trump has sown discord in Europe with his takeover bid for Greenland — a semiautonomous territory of NATO member Denmark — and his subsequent threat to impose tariffs on eight European countries that opposed the takeover.
- It left many of America's closest allies warning of a rupture with Washington capable of shattering the NATO alliance.
- "What were the justifications for the boycotts of the Olympic Games in the 1980s?" Göttlich said.
- "By my reckoning the potential threat is greater now than it was then.
