@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.
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Defending #Greenland in case of military aggression from the USA is often reduced to the complexities of Art. 5 NATO.@jwildeboer So, unless Trump bombs Copenhagen, I don’t see how the EU defense clause would be triggered.
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Defending #Greenland in case of military aggression from the USA is often reduced to the complexities of Art. 5 NATO.@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.
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Defending #Greenland in case of military aggression from the USA is often reduced to the complexities of Art. 5 NATO.@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.
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Defending #Greenland in case of military aggression from the USA is often reduced to the complexities of Art. 5 NATO.@jwildeboer Greenland famously left the EU after a referendum in 1982. Not being an EU member is a big part of Greenlandic political identity.