EU and Greenland Sign Joint Declaration with €200 Million Investment

Key points

• Von der Leyen visited Nuuk and signed a Joint Declaration with Greenland Premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, deepening cooperation across multiple fronts.
• The EU announced a €200 million Global Gateway Partnership Package for this year and next, focused on connectivity, clean energy and critical raw materials.
• A newly signed satellite capacity project will immediately improve internet access for communities in northern Greenland, with remote eastern communities expected to gain faster access by October.
• On clean energy, the package supports new hydropower plants in Greenland to strengthen energy security and independence with homegrown supply.
• On critical raw materials, the Malmbjerg molybdenum project is Greenland's largest venture and could generate up to €90 million a year, while GreenRoc's Amitsoq graphite project is also under way.
• The EU proposes more than doubling funding for Greenland in the next budget, to €530 million by 2034.
• Von der Leyen reaffirmed that Greenland's future is for the people of Greenland and Denmark to decide, stressing territorial integrity, sovereignty and the inviolability of borders.
• A new EU Arctic Strategy will be presented this autumn.