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Originally Posted by August

I saw this the other day and made laff!

Blödsinn. Virtually no Greenlander wants to join the US.


An overwhelming majority of Greenlanders want independence at some point but only 6% want their semi-autonomous country to secede from Denmark to become part of the US instead.
A new poll shows that 84% of Greenlanders want their homeland to be independent from Denmark. Yet almost half, 45%, say they only want it if it does not have a negative impact on their standard of living.

Only 9% say they do not want Greenlandic independence.

The poll by Greenlandic media Sermitsiaq and Danish newspaper Berlingske also shows that although 56 per cent of Greenlanders would vote yes to an independent state if a referendum were held tomorrow, few Greenlanders think Greenland is ready. Only 8% say that Greenland could become an independent state within a year, while 52% think it could happen within 10 or 20 years.
That is a far cry from the swift transition to American control US President Donald Trump is hoping for.

The poll also shows that 85% of Greenlanders reject leaving the Danish realm to join the US and 9% do not know.
But on whether US President Donald Trump's interest represents an opportunity or a threat, Greenlanders are nearly equally divided.
For 43% of them, his interest is an opportunity, a sentiment shared by Qupanuk Olsen, Greenland’s foremost influencer, who Euractiv met in Nuuk last week.
“I think it's fantastic that Trump has shown an interest in Greenland. It speeds up our country’s independence by 100 times,” she said.
Still, a marginally larger share, 45%, thinks Trump’s interest threatens the country.
The poll also showed citizenship preference. Of the 56.000 Greenlanders, 55% said they would prefer a Danish passport, while 8% would opt for US citizenship. Thirty-seven percent said they did not know.
The survey was conducted by Verian for Danish newspaper Berlingske and Greenlandic media Sermitsiaq between 22 January and 27 January 2025.
It is based on web interviews with 497 representatively selected citizens in Greenland aged 18 years or older and is weighted by gender, age, region, and party choice in the last Greenlandic parliamentary election in 2021.

The poll was published in the wake of Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's tour around EU capitals to drum up support for Nuuk and Copenhagen.
Today, she met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, visited French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris and met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Brussels.
Just a day before, European support for Greenland was discussed at the EU foreign ministers' meeting, with the EU's new chief diplomat, Kaja Kallas, saying the EU backs Denmark and its autonomous territory and is "not negotiating" over Greenland. (MM)

https://www.euractiv.com/section/pol...us-poll-finds/



And the polls go like this since three months.