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Greenland is eligible for EU funding. Between 2007 and 2013, the EU allocated approximately €190 million, and between 2014 and 2020, €217.8 million are planned for sustainable development, with focus on education. [11] In 2015, a joint declaration about closer relations between EU and Greenland was signed by Denmark, Greenland and the EU. [12]
[15] [16] It is the largest of three constituent parts of the kingdom, the other two being metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands; the citizens of all territories are full citizens of Denmark. Greenland is one of the Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union. [17] The capital and largest city of Greenland is Nuuk. [17]
Greenland has representative offices in several countries and otherwise is represented by embassies of Denmark worldwide. The Self-Government Act of 2009 allows the government of Greenland to open diplomatic offices, mainly within areas of full jurisdiction of Greenland, this being foreign trade, industry, fisheries, education, science, mining etc.
Many of the same minerals are currently being supplied mostly by China, so other countries such as the United States are interested, Dabelko said. Three years ago, the Denmark government suspended oil development offshore from the territory of 57,000 people.
List of countries by public spending in tertiary education; List of countries ranked by ethnic and cultural diversity level; Dashboard of Sustainability (includes a ranking by Millennium Development Goals) Economist Intelligence Unit: Where-to-be-born Index; Gender Development Index; Gender Empowerment Measure; Gender Inequality Index; Global ...
Education in Greenland is controlled by the Greenlandic Department of Education. [1] Danish is taught as a second language starting in the first grade. [2] Following primary school, Greenlanders can choose to go to a secondary education, either in a gymnasium (a Nordic type of school similar to high school), or a vocational education. [3]
Greenland is of strategic importance to Denmark, Europe, and the U.S. because of its access to the Arctic and, because of global warming, the increasing ease of shipping around its coast. Trump ...
Greenland’s prime minister, Mute Egede, signaled on Tuesday that the territory does not want to engage in the political back-and-forth between the US and Denmark. “Greenland belongs to the ...