Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede called for snap elections there with a renewed global interest in the large Arctic Island since U.S. President Donald Trump has express interest in it.

Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute B. Egede has called a general election for next month, with global attention drawn to the island after US President Donald Trump said he wants to wrest control of the territory from Denmark.

Before Mr Trump’s declaration, Greenland already anticipated that its American tourist numbers would grow in 2025 due to the new direct United Airlines flights. The US-based airline announced last year that it would be offering direct flights to Greenland from New York in the summer months, the first airline to ever do so.

Greenland has announced that general elections will be held on March 11, as revealed by its Prime Minister, while Donald Trump remains interested in the Arctic territory. The election will focus on several key issues,

In 2018, a colleague and I, together with a team of Greenlandic research assistants, conducted one of the most comprehensive surveys to date on public opinion in Greenland. We traveled to 13 randomly selected towns and settlements across the island nation,