Overview
- France installed Jean-Noël Poirier as consul general in Nuuk, becoming the first European Union country to establish a consulate in Greenland.
- Canada opened a consulate with Foreign Minister Anita Anand leading the delegation, joined by Governor General Mary Simon, after a weather delay from a planned November launch.
- Copenhagen and Nuuk reiterate that any transfer of control is off the table, describing Greenland’s sovereignty as a red line.
- Officials frame the openings as support following President Trump’s drive for greater U.S. access to Greenland and his withdrawn tariff threat after a NATO-brokered framework.
- Technical talks among the United States, Denmark and Greenland began last week under that framework, while the new posts focus on cooperation in climate research, Inuit rights, science and commerce.