Donald Trump\u2019s repeated aggression toward Greenland could soon expand the European Union\u2019s membership.<\/p>\n
Denizens of Greenland\u2019s closest neighbor, Iceland, are currently weighing the possibility of joining the continental alliance, The New York Times<\/a> reported Friday.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Greenland crisis definitely hit a nerve,\u201d Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir told the Times in February, in an interview at her office in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n A national referendum will take place in Iceland by the end of the summer\u2014August 29\u2014as to whether to resume accession negotiations with the EU. Iceland originally applied to join the EU in 2009, but negotiations iced after 2013.<\/p>\n While admittance to the EU isn\u2019t a given, the trade seems clear: Iceland is a wealthy nation with a large manufacturing sector and a lot to offer the bloc. In exchange, the country would receive military and economic stability, as well as peace of mind that it\u2019s safe from U.S. incursion. <\/p>\n Reykjavik announced in a statement<\/a> that a subsequent referendum will allow Icelandic voters to decide whether to join the EU, if accession negotiations go well.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the U.S. president\u2019s relentless quest to annex Greenland\u2014a Denmark-controlled territory\u2014has simultaneously put the United States at odds with some of its strongest allies, and in cahoots with Moscow.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, Trump\u2019s fixation transformed into a new trade initiative in which he swore to enact sweeping retaliatory tariffs against any country that opposed his attempts to seize Greenland, as well as any nation that continued to trade with the island. <\/p>\n That sparked a celebration<\/a> in Moscow, which has worked for decades to dismantle NATO, a European-friendly intergovernmental military alliance.<\/p>\n Trump has claimed<\/a> that the U.S. \u201cneeds\u201d Greenland \u201cfor defense.\u201d But what exactly the White House stands to gain from controlling Greenland isn\u2019t clear, especially in light of the fact that myriad existing treaties already give the U.S. unfettered access to Greenland as a military base.<\/p>\n Greenlanders have not taken kindly to Trump and his associates\u2019 sudden interest in acquiring their land. After months of heavy pressure from the Trump family\u2014including an embarrassing stunt<\/a> in which Donald Trump Jr. reportedly convinced homeless residents to wear MAGA merchandise in exchange for food, and an effort in the U.S. Congress to rename the territory<\/a> to \u201cRed, White, and Blueland\u201d\u2014Greenland\u2019s various political parties set aside their differences in March to unite under a singular goal<\/a>: opposing U.S. aggression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s repeated aggression toward Greenland could soon expand the European Union\u2019s membership. Denizens of Greenland\u2019s closest neighbor,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15424,66,39,40,94,116,32937],"class_list":["post-56035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-accession-negotiations","tag-donald-trump","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-greenland","tag-iceland","tag-wealthy-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}