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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) �� Denmark is siding with the United States in the dispute with its fellow EU member France over a major Indo-Pacific defense deal. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says she cannot understand France’s criticisms, and that there will always be “challenges�� between allies. On Tuesday, the EU agreed to put France’s festering dispute over a major Indo-Pacific defense deal between the U.S., Australia and Britain at the top of bloc’s political agenda. Meanwhile, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian issued a statement Thursday saying he held a bilateral meeting with his American counterpart Antony Blinken, on the sidelines of the United Nations summit in New York, aimed at “restoring confidence�� between their two countries.