[Olog-hai]

There is no “full independence” in the EU unless one is out of the EU. As part of Denmark, it’s one of the EU’s “overseas countries and territories”; the EU is not going to let that go, especially with its strategic proximity to the US and Canada, never mind the minerals there.

[4rcane]

greenland should join nafta instead

[P.O.E.]

Oldest known impact crater found

Nickel prospecting.

[DrC]

“Greenland’s leader Kuupik Kleist is boxing above his weight when it comes to foreign policy.”

Was this article ghost-written by POTUS?
http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/09/president-obama-reserves-boxing-analogy-for-small-countries-michelle/

[wita]

“In a century where natural resources are becoming scarcer,”

Now there is an in your face yet to be proven statement. That and “raising the interest of climate researchers”.

How so? You think they want to reintroduce grapes to the economy of southern Greenland?

[Verginius Rufus]

Various parts of North and South America (mostly islands) are already in the EU—St. Pierre and Miquelon, French and Dutch Caribbean islands, French Guiana, the Falkland Islands (known to Obama as “the Maldives”), as well as Greenland. But if Greenland becomes independent it would be the first complete nation-state in the Americas to belong to the European Union.