The Arctic territory has issued a 30-year mining permit to a Danish-French consortium.
    • Bieren@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      1 month ago

      He won’t be angry until someone who can read at a 5th grade level explains it to him. Using really simple and small words.

    • D_C@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      He always wakes up angry. He’s an angry, old, fat, tiny little boy.
      He’ll just be extra, extra angry today.

  • uawarebrah@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    381·
    1 month ago

    Can someone explain this, isn’t this already an EU market through EU membership? Fuck Trump btw.

    • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      17·
      1 month ago

      I guess not every obscure mining company is allowed free reign rain and Greenland is not in the EU.

        • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          9·
          1 month ago

          No, the questions are not obviously answered. I don’t know.

          This confusion might be why Trump thinks it’s free real estate.

        • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 month ago

          They’re an Overseas Country and thus not economically integrated into the EU, though they have a “most favoured third country” type status that is they will never be treated worse when it comes to tariffs and such than the best-treated non-member country.

          OCT citizens are EU citizens so they have freedom of movement and everything, can even vote in EU elections as long as they happen to reside within ordinary EU territory. I think the French overseas territories even regularly vote in EU elections. It’s a clusterfuck of asterisks.

          Most OCTs have that status because they’re so far away from the mainland that the trade they’re doing with the EU is a relatively small portion of their overall trade, that doesn’t really apply to Greenland they left over the EU fisheries policy. Which is also the reason the Faroer and Iceland aren’t in. It would also be the reason why Norway isn’t in if the actual reason wasn’t them being a rich petrostate. The fisheries policy really sucks.

        • B-TR3E@feddit.orgEnglish
          3·
          1 month ago

          Not a stupid question. EU law is complicated as fuck. Denmark is a full EU member but Greenland is an autonomous territory. Basically an ex-colony that was headed for full independece before Trump decided he wants to have it. I guess they’ll opt for closer ties with the EU now, instread.

          • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
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            1 month ago

            I don’t think independence outside of the EU was ever a particularly realistic option either way. Maybe association with Canada, but then that would’ve been quite similar to the situation with Denmark.

            Going it alone, 50k people on a giant landmass, while also being of the opinion that independence should not set the country back in living standards etc. will always be a tall order.

            I was kinda hoping over the decades that they’d manage to pressure the EU to reform the clusterfuck that is the common fisheries policy (which is the reason they left) but with all that mining business coming up it could be that they just won’t care. Iceland? Could rely on exporting energy instead of fish. Norway? Fish is an issue for them but the actual one is that they don’t want to share their oil riches. That leaves the Faroer who… do they even exist? It’s kinda like with elves, you hear tales of them and some evidence that can be interpreted favourably but do they really exist? I mean really?