{"id":138139,"date":"2025-03-11T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T05:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/greenland-faces-fateful-choice-says-islands-pm-as-it-prepares-for-election\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T07:30:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T05:30:56","slug":"greenland-faces-fateful-choice-says-islands-pm-as-it-prepares-for-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/greenland-faces-fateful-choice-says-islands-pm-as-it-prepares-for-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenland faces \u2018fateful choice\u2019 says island\u2019s PM as it prepares for election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138139\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Greenland\u2019s prime minister said voters face a \u201cfateful choice\u201d as the Arctic island prepares to go to the polls in a pivotal election closely watched by Europe and the US. The vote on Tuesday has attracted global attention after Donald Trump\u2019s repeated assertions about acquiring the autonomous territory, using military and economic force if necessary. The poll, which takes place against a backdrop of growing calls for independence, is also being closely scrutinised by Denmark, which ruled Greenland as a colony until 1953 and continues to control its foreign and security policy.<\/p>\n<p>Greenland, along with the Faroe Islands, remains part of the Danish kingdom. However, Copenhagen fears that if voters give strong backing to the largest opposition party, Naleraq, a prominent pro-independence voice and supporter of US collaboration, Greenland could instead strengthen its ties with the US. On Monday the territory\u2019s prime minister and chair of the Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) party, M\u00fate B Egede, accused Trump of being \u201cunpredictable\u201d and said he had failed to treat Greenlanders with respect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe things that are happening in the world right now worry me quite a lot. That there is a world order that is faltering on many fronts, and perhaps a president in the United States who is very unpredictable in a way that makes people feel insecure,\u201d he said. \u201cWe deserve to be treated with respect, and I don\u2019t think the American president has done that lately since he took office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his speech to Congress last week, Trump said that he would acquire Greenland \u201cone way or the other\u201d. And on Sunday, he attempted to appeal to Greenlanders directly by reiterating his invitation to join the US and pledging to \u201cinvest billions of dollars to create new jobs and make you rich\u201d. However, while many in Nuuk are open to strengthening collaboration with the US, the idea of Greenland being acquired by the Trump administration has been widely rejected. Trump\u2019s recent remarks were not helping, Egede said. \u201cWe need to draw a line in the sand and spend more effort on those countries that show us respect for the future we want to draw,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Naaja Nathanielsen, Greenland\u2019s minister for natural resources, equality, business and justice and a member of IA, said Trump\u2019s latest comments were seen as \u201ccrass and inappropriate\u201d. \u201cIt\u2019s the wrong way to do foreign policy if you want to get a closer tie with Greenland,\u201d she added. Of the six parties running, only Naleraq has promised to hold a snap vote on independence and all parties, except for Atassut, support secession \u2013 although with varying degrees of urgency.<\/p>\n<p>Greenland\u2019s longstanding independence movement has gained significant traction in recent years after a series of scandals highlighting Denmark\u2019s racist treatment of Greenlanders \u2013 including the IUD scandal, in which 4,500 women and girls were allegedly fitted with contraception without their knowledge, and \u201cparenting competency\u201d tests that have separated many Inuit children from their parents.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/10\/greenland-faces-fateful-choice-says-islands-pm-as-it-prepares-for-election\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/greenland-faces-fateful-choice-says-islands-pm-as-it-prepares-for-election\/\">Greenland faces \u2018fateful choice\u2019 says island\u2019s PM as it prepares for election<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,18178],"class_list":["post-138139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-greenland-faces-fateful-choice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}