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Congress has moved aggressively to constrain any unilateral U.S. military seizure of Greenland, but its votes are mixed: lawmakers introduced multiple bills and resolutions expressly to bar force or r...
Only one NATO member — Germany — has publicly announced a specific, finalized small contingent and a narrow timeline for deployment to Greenland: a 13-strong Bundeswehr reconnaissance team to Nuuk, ar...
Denmark’s 2018 law banning face-covering garments in public — widely known as the “burqa ban” — provoked immediate protests and sustained criticism from human-rights groups while also winning politica...
The short answer: no — the 1951 U.S.–Denmark defense agreement gives Washington sweeping operational rights in Greenland but does not lawlessly permit the United States to “set up whatever military pr...
The 1951 Denmark–US defense agreement established U.S. responsibility to assist in the defence of Greenland under NATO and created a durable legal framework for American basing and operations on the i...
The –U.S. Defense Agreement formally replaced the and converted near‑unrestricted American basing rights into a peacetime, ‑framed arrangement that specified defense areas and tied U.S. presence to al...
European NATO members have begun moving military personnel and assets to Greenland in the wake of provocative U.S. rhetoric about acquiring the territory, with Germany confirming a 13-strong reconnais...
Paris (and its wider metropolitan area) is repeatedly named in available reporting as the single European city-area with the largest Muslim population — Pew/INSEE-based summaries put Paris metro Musli...
The historical record shows several influential anarchist movements and communities that achieved measurable self‑management, from large‑scale wartime collectivizations in Spain (1936–39) to long‑runn...
The 2004 Igaliku update formally amended the 1951 U.S.–Denmark Defense of Greenland agreement to bring Greenland’s Home Rule (later self‑government) institutions into the defence dialogue, add joint p...
European cities with the largest Muslim communities are overwhelmingly in Western Europe’s biggest capitals and port/industrial centres—Paris, London, Berlin and Marseille are repeatedly identified in...
The United States could physically attempt to seize Greenland, but doing so would be legally fraught, politically catastrophic, and militarily complex — and most analysts and officials cited in report...
The April 9, 1941 “Agreement Relating to the Defense of Greenland,” signed by Danish Ambassador Henrik Kauffmann and U.S. Secretary Cordell Hull, gave the United States broad wartime rights to defend ...
Yes — Denmark has sold territory to the United States in the past: Copenhagen transferred the Danish West Indies (today’s U.S. Virgin Islands) to Washington in 1917 in a transaction shaped by strategi...
Greenland is not an independent sovereign state; it is an autonomous, self-governing country within the constitutional Kingdom (Realm) of Denmark, exercising control over most domestic affairs while D...
Greenland’s political leadership has firmly rejected any notion of U.S. acquisition or unilateral takeover while accepting the logic of stronger allied defence on the island—preferably multilateral an...
Greenland broadly aspires to eventual independence: major Greenlandic parties and laws enshrine a right to self‑determination, and opinion polls have shown majority support for independence in princip...
military basing in began as an emergency arrangement in 1941 and expanded into a network anchored by Thule (now Pituffik) under a sweeping 1951 defense agreement with ; most facilities were later clos...
Paris’s metropolitan area is consistently reported as the single largest concentration of Muslim residents within the European Union — INSEE-based estimates put the Paris area at about 2.5 million Mus...
Greenland is not comfortable with the idea of the United States taking it over: Greenland’s government has explicitly rejected any U.S. takeover and public polling shows overwhelming opposition among ...