"We are Greenlandese, Americans and their leader must realize this. We are not for sale" said Prime Minister of Greenland Mute B. Egede in consequence to Trump's speech. The president of the United States argued in a message to legislature that the United States needs Greenland, due to national and global security. “We will get it 1 way or another,” he said.
"We don't want to be Americans or Danish. We're Greenlandese.The Americans and their leader must understand. We are not for sale, nor can we be taken over due to the fact that we decide our future in Greenland" – he wrote on social media Prime Minister of Greenland Mute B. Egede.
Thus the politician reacted to another announcement by U.S. president Donald Trump concerning the taking over of this Danish-dependent territory.
There is simply a run in Greenland before the parliamentary elections to be held on 11 March. Main lots to varying degrees, they advocate independency from Denmark or independence.
The current parliament adopted at the beginning of the year a bill prohibiting the financing of groups from abroad in order to avoid, among others, American influences.
The subject of Greenland is coming back. Trump turned to the locals
US president Donald Trump He argued in a message delivered on Tuesday to the joint chambers of legislature that United States needs Greenlandfor national and global safety reasons. “We will get it 1 way or another,” he said.
Trump encouraged the residents to support joining the US. “We will guarantee your safety, make you rich, and together we will rise Greenland to the highlands, which you have never considered possible before”, he argued.
– We request Greenland due to the fact that for national and global security, and we will get it 1 way or another," he said.
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According to the Government of Greenland on the island in addition to oil and gas deposits there are 25 of 34 critical natural materials, minerals and metals, sought by the EU. Among them are specified elements as neodymium and dysprosium. In March 2024, the European Commission opened an office in the island capital Nuuk.
The uncommon metallic deposits in Greenland are estimated at 38.4 million tonnes. China now has a monopoly on the extraction of many of them. Greenland, covered by ice so far, is becoming increasingly accessible to the extractive manufacture as a consequence of climate change.
Critical natural materials are those that are of peculiar importance for the renewable energy sector (battery cells for cars, windmill engines), space, digitisation and defence.
