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The expansion of home rule took effect on 21 June 2009, the 30th anniversary of the establishment of home rule, when the Act on Greenland Self-Government took effect. Greenland gained greater control of the police, coast guard, and courts. [4] In addition, the Greenlandic language became the sole official language. [4]
In 2008, Greenland's citizens approved the Greenlandic self-government referendum with a 75% vote in favor of a higher degree of autonomy. [18] Greenland took control of law enforcement, the coast guard, and the legal system. The official language changed from Danish to Greenlandic on 21 June 2009, Greenland national day. [19]
The history of Greenland is a history of life ... The 1999–2003 Commission on Self-Governance even proposed that Greenland should aim at Thule base's removal from ...
Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede announced a desire to obtain independence from Denmark in the wake of President-elect Trump’s comments about buying the island territory. “The Greenlandic ...
Egede has called on the territory to “break free” from the “shackles of the colonial era,” adding that it would soon adopt a new self-government act to chart its own future away from Denmark.
Several proposals have been advanced for governance of Greenland in the event of its acquisition by the United States. Former U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien suggested that the United States could award Greenland to Alaska, noting that "the native people in Greenland are very closely related to the people of Alaska". [241]
The non-binding 2008 referendum on self-governance favouring increased self-governance and autonomy was passed winning 76.22% of the vote. [144] In 1985, Greenland left the European Economic Community (EEC), unlike Denmark, which remains a member. The EEC later became the European Union (EU, renamed and expanded in scope in 1992). Greenland ...
The Naalakkersuisut (English: Cabinet of Greenland, Danish: Grønlands Regering) is the chief executive body and the government of Greenland since the island became self-governing in 1979. As an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark , Greenland is a parliamentary representative democratic territory , in which the premier ...