Sources tell the media that the chairman of the EU Commission will visit Greenland in March and announce a support package.
President of the EU CommissionUrsula von der Leyen, plans to visit Greenland.
This is reported by unnamed sources with knowledge of the case, writes the medium Bloomberg late on Wednesday evening.
According to the media, the visit will take place in March. The sources say that the details of the visit, including the exact dates, are still being finalized.
Von der Leyen will announce a support package for Greenland during the visit, say Bloomberg’s sources.
The sources say that other officials will also participate in the visit, but it is not immediately clear who they are.
The report of a visit has not been officially confirmed. To Bloomberg, a spokesperson for the European Commission refuses to comment on the case.
The news agency Reuters writes that it has not been able to immediately verify the report.
At the beginning of the year, Greenland has been the subject of massive international attention. Here, the American president, Donald Trump, repeated several times that he wanted ownership of the island.
At the same time, Trump has also cast doubt on Denmark’s ability to protect the island from Russian and Chinese interests.
At the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland in January, Trump made an agreement with NATO’s Secretary General, Mark Rutte, that NATO should increase security in the Arctic.
In a speech in the EU Parliament in January, Ursula von der Leyen said that the EU was working on a package to strengthen security in the Arctic.
The first step consists of sharply increasing European investments in Greenland to support the local economy and infrastructure, it said.
Point two is that the EU will cooperate with the US and all other partners on strengthened security in the Arctic, von der Leyen said.
She has also previously visited Greenland. In March 2024, she inaugurated an EU office in the Greenlandic capital, Nuuk.
Greenland is currently being visited by King Frederik, who is scheduled to return home on Friday.
