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Frederiksen signaled that Denmark would welcome Trump sending more troops to Greenland, where the U.S. Space Force already has a base to monitor missile threats. Us Flies Joint Patrol With The ...
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Greenland may become independent if its residents want, but it won't become a U.S. state, Denmark's foreign minister said on Wednesday after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ...
Greenland was a Danish colony until 1953 but is now a self-governing territory of Denmark and in 2009 achieved the right to claim independence through a vote. In 2023, Greenland's government ...
"Greenland is talking about becoming independent from Denmark, but no Greenlanders want to just switch to a new colonial master," said Ulrik Pram Gad, a senior researcher and expert on Greenland.
Interest in buying Greenland has "popped up from time to time in American politics," Tom Høyem, Denmark's minister to Greenland from 1982 to 1987, told ABC News in an interview. Høyem, 83 ...
A poll in 2016 showed that there was a clear majority (64%) for full independence among the Greenlandic people. [25] A 2017 poll showed that 78% of the population would oppose independence if it implied a lower standard of living. [39] A 2019 poll showed that 67.8% of Greenlanders support independence from Denmark sometime in the next two ...
Since 2009 Greenland has held the right to declare independence from Denmark. The island of some 56,000 inhabitants, which relies on significant budget transfers from Copenhagen each year, has so ...
On 6 February 2025, a poll conducted by USA Today between 7 January 2025 and 10 January 2025 was released which showed that only 11% of Americans said that Trump should purchase or annex Greenland. 29% of Americans said that they thought that acquiring Greenland was a good but unrealistic idea, and 53% of Americans said that they don't support ...