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Greenland

  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    US fires Greenland base commander after JD Vance visit

    Col Susannah Meyers accused of ‘subverting’ Donald Trump’s agenda

    JD Vance and Usha Vance listen to Colonel Susan Meyers, who gestures while speaking
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    US foreign policy
    US and Denmark to hold first high-level talks since Trump win

    Meeting between Marco Rubio and Lars Løkke Rasmussen is latest diplomatic activity centred on control of Greenland

    Broken sea ice at Ulkebugt inlet in Sisimiut, Greenland
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    Greenland’s new leader insists US ‘is not getting’ control of the territory

    Arctic island’s new PM responds to pressure from Trump administration as he prepares to meet Danish counterpart

    Jens-Frederik Nielsen in a crowd
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Donald Trump says US must gain control of Greenland

    Comments increase pressure on Nato ally Denmark as vice-president JD Vance tours military base on island

    U.S Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance arrive at the U.S. military’s Pituffik Space Base in Greenland
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Geopolitics
    Putin warns of growing competition for Arctic supremacy

    Russian leader says he is open to co-operation in region as US vice-president heads to Greenland

    Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech at the International Arctic Forum
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    JD Vance to visit military base in Greenland to ‘check out security’

    Visit by US vice-president comes as Danish PM says Donald Trump is putting ‘unacceptable pressure’ on the island

    Two police officers walk along a street covered in snow in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 24 2025
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    Global InsightRichard Milne
    ‘More brutal than buying it’: bewilderment over Trump’s Greenland obsession turns to fear

    Nuuk and Copenhagen’s attempts to placate US president have given way to anger

    A woman holds a sign reading ‘We are not for sale’ during a protest outside the US consulate in Nuuk earlier this month
  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    Trump officials to take ‘private visit’ to US space base in Greenland

    National security adviser and second lady will travel to Arctic island coveted by US president

    Donald Trump Jr on a trip to Greenland in January
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Gillian Tett
    Why a weight-loss drug could become a geopolitical bargaining chip

    Ozempic might feature in US negotiations with Denmark over Greenland

    Illustration of a blue Ozempic syringe standing upright and casting a shadow of a red assault rifle set against a black background
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Greenland’s political leaders unite to condemn Trump takeover talk

    Joint statement issued after US president reiterated his belief that Washington will eventually control the Arctic island

    Nuuk, the capital of Greenland
  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    Greenland party favouring gradual independence wins election

    Incumbent coalition defeated in polls dominated by Donald Trump’s threat to seize Arctic island

    Electoral workers prepare to count votes during parliamentary elections in Nuuk
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    News in-depth
    Greenland independence debate ‘on steroids’ ahead of election

    Donald Trump’s threats to take the territory have divided parliamentary candidates over the future of Danish rule

    A man gestures behind posters for the Greenlandic political party Siumut outside their office in Nuuk, Greenland
  • Saturday, 8 February, 2025
    Arctic
    Arctic Supremacy

    A new geopolitical and commercial power struggle is taking shape. Melting ice is creating new challenges and opportunities, which the FT has dispatched reporters to cover first-hand

  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
    Arctic Supremacy
    How Greenland got caught in a clash of superpowers

    President Trump wants control of the island to boost US security in the Arctic

    A Danish military vessel sails into view near Nuuk
  • Monday, 3 February, 2025
    Greenland plans to ban foreign political donations after Trump threats

    Arctic island in US president’s sights is due to hold parliamentary elections by April 6

    Nuuk, the capital of Greenland
  • Monday, 3 February, 2025
    Geopolitical tensions fuel ‘pretty crazy’ demand for Greenland’s miners

    Territory a treasure trove of minerals and metals, but forbidding terrain makes it one of the hardest places to mine

    Panoramic landscape of abandoned mining building and surrounding mountains in Ivittuut, Greenland
  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2025
    Big majority of Greenlanders do not want to be part of US, poll finds

    Survey is first to be done since Trump revived his interest in buying Arctic island

    A person in a beanie peers from a small window of a green wooden structure, while a child in pink stands on a snowy street with colourful houses in the background
  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2025
    EU and Nato take vow of silence on Greenland

    Denmark urges other European capitals to resist reacting to Donald Trump’s threats

    Locals walk in the Attu settlement, Qeqertalik municipality, Greenland
  • Sunday, 26 January, 2025
    US foreign policy
    Trump ridicules Denmark and insists US will take Greenland

    ‘They put two extra dog sleds there . . . they thought that was protection,’ says US president

    Icebergs seen from Greenland with houses in the foreground
  • Friday, 24 January, 2025
    Donald Trump
    Trump in fiery call with Denmark’s prime minister over Greenland

    US president insisted he wants to take over Arctic island

    President Donald Trump and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark Mette Frederiksen in 2019
  • Sunday, 19 January, 2025
    News in-depth
    Danish and US power loom over Greenland’s Arctic ghost towns

    Many Greenlanders were relocated by Danish colonists and construction of a US base. Global powers are again eyeing the island

    An abandoned railroad cuts through knee-deep snow in the deserted village of Qoornoq, Greenland
  • Thursday, 16 January, 2025
    Business InsightRichard Milne
    The cold reality of developing Greenland

    The potential for business seems huge but so are the challenges

    A church in southern Greenland
  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2025
    Greenland mining minister warns of ‘devastating’ Trump effect

    Naaja Nathanielsen says US president-elect’s rhetoric could damage island’s image as stable democracy

    A worker checks stones after an explosion at an exploration site close to a fjord in Greenland
  • Sunday, 12 January, 2025
    News in-depthGeopolitics
    ‘You don’t just go and buy a country’: Greenland plunged into geopolitical storm

    Residents of Nuuk do not want to be part of the US but welcome a discussion of their sovereignty

    Houses in Nuuk with Sermitsiaq mountain in the background
  • Saturday, 11 January, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast15 min listen
    Swamp Notes: Greenland, USA

    Donald Trump wants new territory. He’s threatening to invade American allies to get it.

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