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77 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 3 Apr \ on: From the Snowy North, the EU and the Euro Beckons (The Economist) Politics_And_Law econ

How did Greenland manage to leave the EU if its part of an EU country?

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91 sats \ 3 replies \ @dgdhr335 3 Apr

The EU wasn't formed until 1993 so they never left it as such.

While Denmark joined what was then the EEC in the early 1970s, Greenland obtained home rule in the early 1980s and voted to leave what was then the EEC around that time.

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6 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 3 Apr

How does that work?

I imagine they have free trade and travel with Denmark, but do they not have the same access with the rest of the EU?

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64 sats \ 1 reply \ @dgdhr335 3 Apr

Explained in more detail at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_and_the_European_Union

Essentially it was an argument about fish.

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68 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 3 Apr

I'm not surprised about that last part

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57 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan OP 3 Apr

no clue... this was the first I heard about that. My understanding was that its foreign policy (trade agreements, military etc) was under Danish rule, in which case that statement makez zero zense.

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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 3 Apr

Might be similar to how US territories are exempt from most federal regulations.

They tried imposing them on Puerto Rico at some point and just about killed the entire economy.

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