The week ahead: Our election

Foreign observers want Greenland’s election next week to be a plebiscite about independence. Most voters have long since made up their mind on the issue.

By Kevin McGwin April 23, 2018
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Translated loosely, the name that the people of Greenland call their territory is ‘our country’. Legally speaking, this is not yet completely the case: Until the people of Kalaallit Nunaat (literally: the land of the Kalaallit) decide otherwise, it is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and just as many decisions that affect the country are made in Copenhagen as in Nuuk.

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