An economic aid package being prepared by the U.S. government to Greenland is drawing criticism in Denmark less than a year after it rebuffed U.S. President Donald Trump's offer to buy the vast Arctic island.
COPENHAGEN - An economic aid package being prepared by the U.S. government to Greenland is drawing criticism in Denmark less than a year after it rebuffed U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer to buy the vast Arctic island.
The U.S. ambassador to Denmark said in an op-ed this week that the government is working on “a substantial package of economic aid” to Greenland. “It’s completely unheard of that a close ally tries to create division between Greenland and Denmark this way,” Soren Espersen, a member of the Danish parliament’s foreign affairs committee for opposition party The Danish People’s Party, called the U.S. offer “an insult” to Greenland and Denmark.
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