NEW OPINION POLL
Three quarters of the Greenlandic population see no advantages in Greenland becoming part of the United States. Figures from a new opinion poll clearly show public sentiment towards the United States.
It won’t be an advantage for Greenland to become part of the United States.
That’s what 76 percent of respondents say in a new poll conducted by voter analyst Sune Steffen Hansen from Copenhagen Post, with Opinion Danmark A/S as data supplier.
In the survey, the participants were asked the question: Overall, do you think that it will be an advantage for Greenland if Greenland becomes part of the United States?
Only eight percent answered “yes” to that question, while 17 percent answered “don’t know”.
The poll was conducted both online and by telephone in January. It comes in the wake of a troubled time when the American president has repeated his statements about wanting control over Greenland.
– The figures clearly show that there is no support for becoming part of the United States. It is reasonable to believe that last month’s heated discussion about Greenland’s future has probably simply pushed the US further away from the Greenlanders, says Sune Steffen Hansen.
54 percent worried about military force
Until January 21 at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, military force was still on the table as a tool for the US to get Greenland. Donald Trump stated in his speech in Davos, that he would not use force.
But fear has set in the population. To the question of how worried people are about the US deploying military forces in Greenland to take over control of the country, 54 percent answer that they are either very worried or somewhat worried.
40 percent respond that they are not particularly worried or not worried at all.
EU over the US?
Chairman of Naalakkersuisut, Jens-Frederik Nielsen (D), was very clear when he stood at a press conference with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Copenhagen three weeks ago:
– If we have to choose between the USA and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose Nato, the Kingdom of Denmark and the EU, he said.
And the population agrees with that, shows the new opinion poll from Sune Steffen Hansen and Copenhagen Post.
65 percent answer that they believe it would be best for Greenland to strengthen cooperation with the EU over the USA.
– The fact that almost seven out of ten Greenlanders prefer the EU to the USA must be read into the current situation. It is significant, Sune Steffen Hansen assesses.
Only five percent chose the United States, while 29 percent chose neither or don’t know.
A survey conducted by Nasiffik in 2024 showed that 60 percent of the population would vote yes to membership of the EU.
But while the parties in Inatsisartut would like increased cooperation with the EU, there was not much enthusiasm for a re-registration, since at the beginning of October 2025 discussed it in the hall.
Is an independent Greenland realistic?
In a nearly nine-hour long debate on “The State of the Kingdom” in Inatsisartut on Monday said Jens-Frederik Nielsenthat the USA will in no way accept that Greenland becomes independent, and therefore talk of statehood is not appropriate at this time:
– It is the reality that over on the other side (USA, ed.) there is a desire to annex Greenland, said Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
But there the population is a little more calm.
Half of the respondents answered “yes” to the fact that in the long term Greenland can become independent and thus withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations, without another country gaining decisive political or military influence over Greenland.
Over a quarter answered “no”, while the rest were unsure.
