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Jack Power

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73 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Taking Stock
The Blue Economy & Could Iceland join the EU?

And then in the end, I mean, you know, those few days later,

Taking Stock
The Blue Economy & Could Iceland join the EU?

were pretty frantic.

Taking Stock
The Blue Economy & Could Iceland join the EU?

You could kind of see people kind of huddling and discussing things and hushed tones in corridors.

Taking Stock
The Blue Economy & Could Iceland join the EU?

People were running here and there.

Taking Stock
The Blue Economy & Could Iceland join the EU?

And then in the end, you know, Trump basically backed down and the heat came out of the situation.

Taking Stock
The Blue Economy & Could Iceland join the EU?

But I think it's important to remember just the damage that that did to Denmark and Denmark's previously really, really close relationship with America.

Taking Stock
The Blue Economy & Could Iceland join the EU?

And also Greenland and Europe's kind of wider relationship with the US.

Taking Stock
The Blue Economy & Could Iceland join the EU?

I think if there was any lingering doubt about, you know, the lack of regard Trump gives to his European allies, you know, that was really the shattered, the last holdouts of people who were kind of trying to...

Taking Stock
The Blue Economy & Could Iceland join the EU?

keep up with this slight mirage that actually Trump is, his bark is worse than his bite.

Taking Stock
The Blue Economy & Could Iceland join the EU?

It has kind of prompted this, you know, reconsideration of Greenland and where they sit.

Taking Stock
The Blue Economy & Could Iceland join the EU?

And it's, you know, those talks have been quietly ongoing between the

Taking Stock
The Blue Economy & Could Iceland join the EU?

Greenland authorities between Denmark and Washington to come up with some kind of arrangement that would ideally head off the need for, as Trump sees it, him to own Greenland because what he's worried about is the Arctic Circle and Russia and China muscling in and influencing and interfering.

Taking Stock
The Blue Economy & Could Iceland join the EU?

with their naval ships in that territory.

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