Lenses of Transparency

Greenland is an autonomous country that is part of the Danish realm. Having achieved home rule in 1979 and self-rule in 2009, Greenlandic political elites, journalists, Danish politicians, and residents from all walks of life expect full political independence will be declared at some point in the future. Greenland’s economy is supported and buttressed by an annual “block grant” from Denmark of approximately $500 million; both Denmark and Greenland have agreed that independence will be predicated upon the end of the block grant, linked to a concomitantly expanded and dominant resource extraction economy.