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The EU Common Fisheries Policy is an important reason why Greenland, Norway and Iceland stay outside the EU. There was hope that the Icelandic negotiations on EU membership 2011–2013 could create an exception to the policy but the negotiations never got that far.
A Treaty on Greenland's withdrawal from the Community was made – the Greenland Treaty – declaring Greenland as a “special case”. This "special case" provided a fisheries agreement between the parties in which the European Community and later the European Union kept its fishing rights and Greenland kept its financial contribution as ...
The changing membership of the EU. Greenland is the large island at top left.. After being a part of the European Communities (EC) for twelve years, Greenland withdrew in 1985. . It had joined the EC in 1973 as a county of Denmark, even though a majority in Greenland was against joini
Greenland was also home to an abundant source of cryolite, a rare earth mineral important for the production of military aircraft in Canada and the U.S. With this in mind, Germany began to ...
However, French Algeria, Greenland and Saint-Barthélemy did cease being part of the EU (or its predecessor) in 1962, 1985, and 2012, respectively, due to status changes. The situation of Greenland being outside the EU while still subject to an EU member state had been discussed as a template for the pro-EU regions of the UK remaining within ...
The European Commission published on Wednesday its report on progress made by candidates to become members of the European Union on the road to fulfilling all the necessary criteria. Accession ...
The top European Union military official, Robert Brieger, said it would make sense to station troops from EU countries in Greenland, according to an interview with Germany's Welt am Sonntag ...
The Kingdom of Denmark is a member state of the European Communities, the predecessor of the European Union, since 1973. In 1982, Greenland voted to leave the Communities after gaining home rule from the Realm of Denmark. [65] The Faroe Islands was never part of the EU, as explicitly asserted by both Rome treaties. [66]