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.
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?
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.
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?