Greenland lawmakers consider a ban on foreign donations to parties in face of Trump’s ambitions

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Greenland’s legislature debated Tuesday whether to prohibit governmental parties from receiving contributions “from overseas oregon anonymous contributors” aft President Donald Trump laid retired ambitions for the United States to instrumentality implicit the immense island that belongs to Denmark.

Inatsisartut, Greenland’s parliament, discussed the connection that would besides prohibition immoderate azygous enactment from receiving home backstage contributions that transcend astir $27,700 successful total, oregon astir $2,770 for a azygous contributor.

The authorities of Greenland asked the parliament’s five-member presidency to see a measure aimed to “protect Greenland’s governmental integrity” that would instrumentality effect immediately.

The measure “must beryllium seen successful airy of the geopolitical interests successful Greenland and the existent concern wherever representatives of an allied large powerfulness person expressed involvement successful taking implicit and controlling Greenland,” according to a translation of a parliamentary papers successful Danish outlining the measure.

The determination comes up of parliamentary elections that indispensable beryllium held nary aboriginal than April successful Greenland.

Kent Fridberg, a elder ineligible serviceman astatine parliament, said helium did not cognize whether immoderate specified overseas donors had already contributed to Greenland’s governmental parties and the thought for the measure was “basically a preventative measure.”

Speaking by telephone to The Associated Press, Fridberg noted Trump’s expressed involvement successful Greenland — and said immoderate Russian politicians had voiced a akin involvement — and that parties connected the land are mostly funded by nationalist means.

Before taking bureau for his 2nd word connected Jan. 20, Trump said helium would not regularisation retired the usage of subject unit to prehend power of the Panama Canal and Greenland, arsenic helium declared U.S. power of some to beryllium captious to American nationalist security.

The U.S. president reiterated his ambitions on the contented successful comments to reporters past week. His oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., visited the mineral-rich territory that’s location to a ample U.S. subject basal aboriginal past period and told citizens: “We’re going to dainty you well.”

Originally Published: February 4, 2025 astatine 9:25 AM EST