Defending #Greenland in case of military aggression from the USA is often reduced to the complexities of Art. 5 NATO.

Defending #Greenland in case of military aggression from the USA is often reduced to the complexities of Art. 5 NATO. But there is a similar rule for EU member states, that will be automatically triggered without NATO but demands the same commitments as given to NATO for EU members that are also NATO members.

Article 42(7) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU)

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/article-427-teu-eus-mutual-assistance-clause_en

@johl Denmark is, though.

This rule will obviously become very relevant when Ukraine joins the EU. And one can build a NATO-less defence strategy on it if the political will is strong enough.

@jwildeboer Sure, another part of the Kingdom of Denmark (Denmark mainland) is an EU member. But that doesn’t make it true for Greenland. The Greenlandic demand for a referendum to leave the EU was a trigger for the events that lead to home rule in Greenland. Ignoring that would not be very popular with Greenlanders.

@jwildeboer I hope that an entirely independent Greenland would reconsider things and join the EU at some point in the future. But it’s not political reality.

@jwildeboer So, unless Trump bombs Copenhagen, I don’t see how the EU defense clause would be triggered.

Defending #Greenland in case of military aggression from the USA is often reduced to the complexities of Art. 5 NATO. But there is a similar rule for EU member states, that will be automatically triggered without NATO but demands the same commitments as given to NATO for EU members that are also NATO members.

Article 42(7) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU)

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/article-427-teu-eus-mutual-assistance-clause_en

Defending #Greenland in case of military aggression from the USA is often reduced to the complexities of Art. 5 NATO. But there is a similar rule for EU member states, that will be automatically triggered without NATO but demands the same commitments as given to NATO for EU members that are also NATO members.

Article 42(7) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU)

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/article-427-teu-eus-mutual-assistance-clause_en

@jwildeboer I hope that an entirely independent Greenland would reconsider things and join the EU at some point in the future. But it’s not political reality.

@jwildeboer It’s comparable to how Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten are members of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and let the Netherlands call the shots on foreign policy and defense, but are not EU members.