FROM TENSION INSULATION

We have an urgent need to become an independent country. Everyone knows that. The Nordic Council knows that. The WTO knows that. The Olympic Committee knows that. The UN knows it. And the Arctic Council. And EFTA. The Danish government knows that. We know it ourselves. And deep down, even the most diligent allies know that too.

The current situation, where we are neither birds nor fish, is not sustainable.

It’s not about nationalism or romance. It is primarily about common sense, about freedom of movement for people and business and about hard currency through trade agreements. It is about considerably more money than the meager billion that binds the nation in the current constitutional situation.

But although we all know what is going to happen, we rather dig a hole in the knees and exhaust ourselves in trying to get exemptions from global relations and associations. And so the whole nation goes to the branch, when we, of course, get a cash card no.

If we instead take off our straitjacket and become an independent country, we can rise up, brush the dirt off our knees and join all international organizations with a raised brow. Then all doors are open.

Becoming an independent country is not about breaking any ties. On the contrary, it is about establishing relations with other countries and international organisations. Relationships that only independent countries can establish.

All that is needed is that we have the status of an independent country. That we are one state.

When the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, delivered her inaugural speech in the Folketing on 3 October 2023, she said, among other things:

“There was once a time when there was Denmark, and then there were two other countries in the commonwealth. That’s over now. And it’s not Denmark that should decide the future of either Greenland or the Faroe Islands. That’s a decision that belongs to Nuuk and Tórshavn.”

And as long as we have a commonwealth. And I personally hope that we have that for many years. Then it must be an equal cooperation between three countries, three peoples and three nations.”

Back in January this year, when Trump coveted Greenland, she was faced with a similar message.

So the legal moment is now. We must take the Danes to their word.

It is of course sad that the Social Democratic Party has just announced such a bombastic statement. I don’t know where the chain ended. But I have not yet met an ally who cannot agree that we should organize ourselves as an independent country, if only in close cooperation with Denmark. And if that’s what it takes to get the skeptics involved, it’s a good way to go.

A solution where we change the existing “community” into a true community between two (or three) equal, independent countries. Three states in a voluntary association, notified to the UN. No revolution, but important changes.

It would be a quick and easy solution that everyone can live with. We would have taken off our tension shirt, and that would have given us freedom of action and air under our wings immediately.

Vinarliga / Best Regards

Erling Eidesgaard

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