This verdict is expected to have prejudicial effect in Denmark by MIkael Hertig, M of Sci Pol. The European Court of Human Rights September 10 2019 gave a verdict which must be expected to have substantial effect on public administration praxis in both Norway and Denmark. The reason is that the verdict more or less rejects the total…
Greenland – KaIaalit Nunaaat – is Kim Kielsen facing an unstable autumn?
By Mikael Hertig * Siumut rebellion is postponed, not closed down As earlier articles have explained, internal dissatisfaction with Kim Kielsen is a threat to his leadership – both in the Siumut party — and the Government, Naalakkersuisut. The threat looks like a big internal challenge to the Siumut party. The Government can hardly just change from one…
Siumut closes internal Greenlandic debate on US swap
By Mikael Hertig * In Greenland, two parties are open to discuss a possible US take over of the big Island. Beside Naleraq, the second political parties are the center – right party “Demokraterne”. The latter information will be seen as surprising, as Democrats among many people has been seen as a Pro-Danish party. …
Small Greenlandic political party wants to switch from to USA (1.1.)
Proposes to be connected to US instead of Denmark Corrected By Mikael Hertig, M of Sci Pol * Recently Donald Trump proposed the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to buy Greenland of Denmark. This was immediately refused. “Greenland belongs to The Greenlanders”, Mette Frederiksen said. Since 2009, Greenland has “Self Rule” but recognized as part of “Kingdom of Denmark”…
Denmark should soften it’s small state policy approach
By Mikael Hertig, M. of Sci. Pol. Intensify Danish-Greenlandic cooperation with Canada When the Danish diplomatic conversation is about the relationship to Canada, it is usually the question of the supremacy of Hans’ Island, which first emerges. But there are both geopolitical and cultural reasons why Denmark should make much more of it’s relations to Canada. It…
Greenlanders to Trump: Greenland is not for sale
By Mikael Hertig, M. of Pol. Sci. August 16 2019. mh@aquut.com Danes and Greenlanders: “This is absurd” Donald Trump is visiting Denmark primo September. Several US papers refers – among others Wall Street Journal – that Trump is going to negotiate how Unites States can buy Greenland. In 1920, USA bought The Virgin Islands of…
Greenland: The Democrats interfere in Siumut quarrel
By Mikael Hertig, Denmark. Master of Political Science August 14 2019 The party “Democrats” intervenes in the Siumut Party’s internal conflict. The Democrats weak support to independence Like most of the Greenlandic parties, also the Democrats claims to work for full independence. Greenland is a former Danish colony. Today, Greenland is governed…
Greenland: Kielsen will not retire immidiately – but later UPDATED
Crisis in Government of Greenland: Kielsen will retire at a later stage By Mikael Hertig August 14 2019 As mentioned in an article yesterday, seven members of the chair of Siumut party (“Siumut” = “Avance”) claimed the retirement of Kim Kielsen, Prime Minister of Government of Greenland . The crisis is obvious, and the weakened Prime Minister has…
Majority in Greenlands party Siumut demands resignation of their Governor
Kim Kielsen’s position as country chairman is under threat Photo of National Chairman Kim Kielsen taken from his New Year’s speech A majority of Inatsisartut’s Siumut group in a press release late Monday demanded Naalakkersuisut chairman Kim Kielsen step down. This is what the Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq writes early Tuesday morning. Seven…
Persondatabeskyttelse i Grønland.
persondataret3 Bogen blev til i 2016. Nu gælder Persondataloven i Grønland, men GDPR i Danmark Grønland er ikke accepteret i EU som sikkert tredjeland Bogen kan downloades. persondataret3 Mikael Hertig 2018
The blessing time of colonies
By Mikael Hertig 20 In Denmark, the blessing time of colonies1 Marine Duc and Mikael Hertig Abstract Despite the implementation since the end of the 1970s of a gradual transfer of power from the government of Denmark to Naalakkersuisut – Government of Greenland -, this is not just a peaceful development in relations between the small Nordic country and its…
Praktikforløb og skånebehov
Tager arbejdsgiverne skånebehov alvorligt? Når arbejdsgiveren modtager mennesker i virksomhedspraktik, skal han altid respekterer de skånebehov, der følger personen. Det kan handle om tidsbegrænsninger, om løfteevne, om psykiske forhold. Jeg har mødt klienter med skånebehov, hvor de slet ikke blev respekteret. Jeg har oplevet det, som om personen bliver sat i arbejde på mere normale vilkår, end skånebehovene…
A Greenlandic perspective on the Greenlandic economy
Adam Grydehøj is a researcher in microstates and island communities, with a focus on the Arctic region and China. He is director of the Island Dynamics research institute (www.islanddynamics.org), executive editor of Island Studies Journal (www.islandstudies.ca), and guest lecturer in political science at Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland. A Danish version of this article was first published in Sermitsiaq. Adam…
Colony definitions – Encyclopedia Britannica 1911
Nuuk, New Harbour seen from Qinngorput, 2017 Mikael Hertig photo (c) ‘ The article by Marine DUC and me has been published (in Norwegian) in Aftenposten Innsikt. Here, we discuss the tension of political meaning of the tension between Denmark and Greenland, Is Denmark still some sort of colony and if not what else? However, it has been claimed Greenland…
Greenlands leading party Siumut is at risc of being cleaved in two
The leading Siumut Party is at risk at being split up in two after the congress July 26. Thinking in European logics, a cleavage wood seem inevitable. However, Greenlanders think and act in a culture trying to avoid conflicts. And if conflicts comes to the surface, to live with them if possible. Greenland’s near future depends on the result…
Greenland: Danish Government is bluffing (updated)
Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen is bluffing when he threatens the Government of Greenland with eliminating “Bloktilskud” Abstract Both by a debate in the Danish Folketing in may and later repeated at a common “Rigsmøde” between the prime ministers of Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland the Danish Prime Minister has threatened the Greenlandish Government and Parliament (Naalakkersuisut, Inatsisartut)…