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Politics

The battle for Earth’s largest island

Fateful choice: The Demokraatit party, which favours a gradual approach to independence, looks set to declare victory in Greenland’s general election today. Naleraq, the opposition party which wants to start divorce proceedings from Denmark and have closer ties with the US, is a close second.

Could Greenland spark a catastrophe? More than 1,000 years ago, Europeans changed the destiny of this island at the edge of the world. Now it may set Europe’s own destiny.