Posted on 04/24/2018 10:47:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Greenland votes Tuesday in a local parliament election, with full independence a key issue for the self-ruled Danish territory threatened by global warming and struggling with youth suicides and sex abuse among its indigenous people.
Rich in unexploited natural resources, Greenland gained autonomy from Denmark in 1979 and was granted self-rule in 2009, though Copenhagen retains control of foreign and defense affairs.
The vast island between the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans, mostly covered in ice and home to just 55,000 people, also receives some 3.6 billion kroner (€483 million, $591 million) in subsidies each year from its former colonial master.
While Denmark’s constitution recognizes the island’s right to decide on its own independence, if it became a sovereign nation it would lose the much-needed subsidies, which make up 60 percent of Greenland’s annual budget. So the main issue for pro-independence campaigners is when to secede, and how to do so without impoverishing the island.
With a gross domestic product of $2.2 billion in 2015, an independent Greenland would be the poorest country in Europe along with San Marino.
Of the seven political parties, six are in favor of independence. Some are keen to declare independence by 2021 to coincide with the 300th anniversary of Denmark’s occupation, though most have not set a timeline. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.dk ...
The EU conflates itself with “Europe” deliberately all the time. Consequently, even French Guiana would be considered “part of Europe” despite being in South America.
The Monroe Doctrine had a purpose.
Smoking and tripping is all that they do at the AFP.
I saw it I saw it with my own two eyes
>> Just as we occupied Denmark’s Iceland at the outbreak of WWII <<
Yes, and just as the UK occupied “neutral” Portugal’s Azores Islands during the same War.
The UK would've liked neutral Ireland's Atlantic ports.
Maybe, just one (please).
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