While Donald Trump's interest in Greenland provoked reactions from EU leaders, residents seem less worried, according to interviews conducted on the ground by Euronews. #RadioSchuman

At the end of the interview, Qarsoq Høegh-Dam, a top official with the Naleraq party and an adviser to Olsen, popped in to say hello. Høegh-Dam is a gregarious politico, of a familiar sort you often find in insular government towns. He said he was trying to organize a “watch party” for Trump’s inauguration.

President Donald Trump’s bid for the island is an old idea without much appeal among modern drillers and miners, analysts say.

The move comes after President Donald Trump voiced his desire to acquire Greenland and refused to rule out using military force.

For years, Denmark scrimped on military spending for the strategic island. Now, Trump says America must own the territory.

I clearly recall the factoid from high school geography, that Iceland was purposefully deceptively named and is actually quite green, and that Greenland is largely a huge slab of ice. Though not quite as icy as it used to be.

In a city of around 19.000 and with hospitality services close to full capacity, the bar for over-tourism is low.

It has been nearly 80 years since the United States expanded its territory, and there are increasing signs that President Donald Trump intends to change that. After what seemed in his first term like a lark about claiming Greenland, Trump has doubled down on that and other expansionist ideas.

An aircraft carrying businessman Donald Trump Jr. arrives in Nuuk, Greenland, Jan. 7, 2025. Emil Stach/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Imagees Trump's son, Donald Trump, Jr., visited Greenland on Jan ...

The road south from Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, runs out at the tip of a blizzard-scoured peninsula stretching into the Labrador Sea. Icebergs drift beyond the sea ice toward the open ocean, carved off the glacier some 100 kilometers away at the head of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord.

Moreover, Canada is closer to Greenland than Denmark and shares a land border on Hans Island. Existing ports, airfields and other facilities in Newfoundland & Labrador and Nunavut could help to serve Greenland and vice versa, the op-ed adds.

The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) has issued a strong warning about the risk of marginalizing Indigenous voices as foreign powers increasingly eye Greenland for its strategic location and natural resources.