Survey: Danes categorically bash Trump's renewed attempts to purchase Greenland

A significant majority of Danes are against the idea of transferring Greenland to the United States, according to a recent survey. This response comes in reaction to US President-elect Donald Trump's renewed interest in acquiring control over the island.

The survey was conducted by the Danish sociological institute Voxmeter, as reported by Caliber.Az citing Danish media outlets. Its findings reveal that 89.2% of respondents were opposed to Trump's offer to "purchase" the largest island of the world, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans in Northern America. In stark contrast, only 4.5% expressed their support for the idea while 6.3% were undecided.

Trump first expressed his interest during his first presidential term. Greenland, which is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark and therefore also part of the European Union, was of strategic importance for Arctic security, the US politician stated in 2019. At the time, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen dismissed the idea as "absurd," leading to the cancellation of Trump's planned state visit back then to Denmark.

This time, Frederiksen responded more diplomatically, clarifying, that "Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders." She emphasized during a TV apperance that her position and that of the government were very clear and that the future of Greenland would be determined in Greenland.

Greenland's Prime Minister, Múte Egede, was more direct in her response, stressing that the future and the fight for independence are "our own affairs."

Egede also remarked, "Danes, Americans, and everyone else can have their opinions, but we will not succumb to hysteria or finger-pointing. Our future is ours, and it will be determined by us."

By Nazrin Sadigova