Greenlandic Prime Minister Múte Egede has repeatedly pushed again towards hypothesis the island might be up for grabs, stressing his individuals’s company within the debate.
“We don’t wish to be Danes. We don’t wish to be Americans. We wish to be Greenlanders,” he informed reporters earlier this month.
Trump first mulled buying the huge Arctic island and its mineral assets throughout his first time period in workplace, however was rebuffed by Copenhagen. Greenland has been a Danish territory since 1953 and was a colony earlier than that.
Egede is eager to carry a referendum that would see the island turn out to be unbiased from Denmark, and freer to chart its personal future.
But the emboldened U.S. president has returned to workplace with a renewed fixation on taking up Greenland, ostensibly to bolster American presence within the Arctic amid polar competitors with Russia and China.
That has sparked alarm in Copenhagen, and amongst key European governments.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen launched into a whirlwind diplomatic tour of European capitals Tuesday, in a bid to shore up assist for stopping Trump taking Greenland by power or financial coercion — as he has threatened to do.