The Daily Populous Saturday March 29th, 2025 morning edition
Authored by thelocal.dk and submitted by nohup_me

The announcement of the new government -- which does not include the ultra-nationalist party -- came just hours ahead of an uninvited visit to Greenland by US Vice President JD Vance, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris Wright.

The prime ministers of both Denmark and Greenland have criticised the visit as putting "unacceptable pressure" on Copenhagen and Nuuk and qualified it as "foreign interference" and "inappropriate".

"It is very important that we put aside our disagreements and differences... because only in this way will we be able to cope with the heavy pressure we are exposed to from outside," Greenland's new prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, told reporters as he presented the new government.

Nielsen's social-liberal Democrats emerged victorious in the March 11th election. Outgoing prime minister Mute Egede of the left-green Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) will serve as finance minister.

"Seventy-five percent of the population is united by this coalition," Nielsen said.

The ultra-nationalist Naleraq party is the only one of the five parties represented in parliament that will not be in government, having quit the negotiations earlier this week.

All of the five parties are in favour of independence, though they all propose different timeframes, as the country still depends heavily on subsidies from Denmark.

Naleraq, which came in second in the election, is the only party in favour of emancipation as soon as possible.

"We need stability and unity at a time when foreign actors are trying to influence the development of our nation," the new government's official programme states, local media reported.

"When it comes to independence, it is important that we proceed cautiously," it reads.

Carina Ren, head of the Arctic programme at Denmark's University of Aalborg, told AFP independence now looked set to be a long-term project.

After hearing the government's first reading of its programme, she said it was clear that "discussions on a rapid independence process have been put aside, it's not for now."

AdhesivenessFun2060 on March 28th, 2025 at 20:55 UTC »

The US is moving the narrative from "Greenland wants to be part of the US" to "we need to take over greenland to preempt anyone else doing it." We're not long until they're openly talking about invading it.

postusa2 on March 28th, 2025 at 20:34 UTC »

Can you imagine - a nation of 58k has at least four different parties, where as 340 million have picked two tribes.

Repave2348 on March 28th, 2025 at 19:58 UTC »

Trump, the great unifier.

Against him.