Greenland’s future will be decided in Nuuk, not Copenhagen or Washington.
And rightly so.
Leaving Nuuk, I felt hopeful for the island nation I still share a realm with.
As a Dane, I am accustomed to a dull landscape. Imagine the Dutch one, but flatter and with fewer colourful flowerbeds.
So, walking around Greenland’s mountainous landscape in the extreme cold of the Arctic North, I couldn't have felt further away from home. There is very little Danish about Greenland.
And yet, nearly everyone on the street spoke my mother tongue. For better and for worse, Denmark and Greenland share 300 years of history – mixing blood and culture.
Nuuk was also part of the EU before becoming the first country to leave the bloc, voting out in 1982 after joining alongside Denmark a decade earlier.
Should it reconsider EU membership?
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