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All members have militaries, except for Iceland, which does not have a typical army (but it does have a coast guard and a small unit of civilian specialists for NATO operations). Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states.
Nato asks every member country to spend at least 2% of national income - also known as GDP - on defence. It is thought that 23 countries met that target in 2024 , compared to only three in 2014. [BBC]
Unlike Denmark proper, Greenland is not part of the European Union (EU). The country's status was changed to an Overseas Country and Territory (OCT) associated with the EU, a dependent territory that has a special relationship with a member state of the EU. However, Greenland remains a full member of the Council of Europe and NATO.
English: A geographical projection of a map that highlights all member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Nederlands: Een geografische projectie waarin het gebied van alle lidstaten van de Noord-Atlantische Verdrags Organisatie (NAVO) wordt belicht.
Sweden and Finland have been formally invited to join the alliance.
Rufus Gifford, a former U.S. ambassador to Denmark, said in a Sunday interview that the NATO alliance would be compelled to respond to any invasion or incursion into Greenland. “I think the ...
[21] [252] Writing for Irish Legal News, Federica Fazio questioned whether Denmark could, in fact, invoke the EU's mutual defense provisions in the event of the coercive annexation of Greenland as there is an outstanding question as to whether it is applicable in "Overseas Countries and Territories" of EU member states, such as Greenland. Fazio ...
President-elect Donald Trump floated the idea on Sunday that the U.S. should buy the Arctic island of Greenland because of its strategic importance to the U.S. and NATO. “For purposes of ...