The Week Ahead: Unexpected turbulence
Nationalist lawmakers in Greenland appear ready to let the government crash and burn rather than let Danish money help make Greenland’s largest-ever infrastructure project a reality.
As a self-governing country within the Kingdom of Denmark, Greenland receives nearly 4 billion kroner ($620 million) each year from Copenhagen in the form of a block grant. Ever since 2009, when Nuuk was granted more powers to manage its own affairs, this has been the only money Danish lawmakers have sent to Nuuk.
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