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  • Tuesday, June 17th 2025 - 08:43 UTC

    Macron in favor of Greenlanders' self-determination

    Greenland and the deep seas are not “up for grabs,” Macron insisted (Pic REUTERS)

    French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his country's solidarity with Greenland on Sunday in light of US President Donald Trump's ambitions regarding the Danish territory. He stopped there en route to the G7 Summit in Canada alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen. Macron also said he spoke on behalf of the European Union (EU).

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  • Monday, December 30th 2024 - 09:36 UTC

    Trump’s long late and lost attempt to take over Greenland

    In November 2017 Greenland’s premier, Kim Kielsen, led a government delegation to Beijing to seek Chinese investment.

    By Gwynne Dyer - From his purchase of New Jersey casinos to his proposed acquisition of Greenland, Donald Trump’s real estate deals have always been plagued by bad timing. The United States could probably have bought Greenland from Denmark in 1917 (when it did buy the U.S. Virgin Islands from the Danes), but he’s a century too late now.

  • Saturday, August 17th 2019 - 07:40 UTC

    Trump's attempt to purchase Greenland, puts the Arctic in the geostrategic global map

    The accelerating polar ice melt has left Greenland, astride what are potentially major shipping routes and in the crosshairs of intensifying geopolitical competition

    President Donald Trump's reported wish to buy Greenland may have been rejected by Denmark, but it underscores the rapidly rising value of the massive, ice-covered island due to global warming and to China's drive for an Arctic presence.