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Brussels – This morning (May 12),\u00a0 Denmark\u00a0<\/strong>took over the leadership<\/a> of the Arctic Council.<\/strong>\u00a0The forum brings together the countries bordering the northern polar circle, succeeding Norway<\/strong>, which led the body from 2023 to 2025.<\/span> The new Danish mandate, which will last until 2027<\/strong>, promises to be particularly significant, given the complex geopolitical context across the Arctic region.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the Norwegian presidency, the Council faced an unprecedented internal crisis<\/a> due to the tensions<\/strong> arising from the war in Ukraine and the suspension of cooperation with Russia<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0Despite these difficulties, Norway\u00a0managed to maintain the unity and functionality of the Council, focusing on limited goals such as climate change, protection of the marine environment, and the welfare of Arctic peoples.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under the Danish leadership, the biggest challenge will be managing the sensitive political dynamics, particularly concerning\u00a0Greenland<\/strong>, which has become a point of strategic interest after the statements<\/a> of Donald Trump<\/strong>, who has not ruled out the possibility of gaining control of it militarily.<\/span> Denmark will have to balance global geopolitical interests with the need to preserve stability and cooperation among Arctic Council members, not an easy task at a time of growing\u00a0international rivalry<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The challenges Copenhagen will face at the helm of the intergovernmental organization include American interests in Greenland, economic competition, and international crises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7883,"featured_media":426353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[26411,30168,30666,30138,25803],"class_list":["post-426368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-arctic-en","tag-denmark-en","tag-greenlandia-and","tag-russia-in-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426368"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426394,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426368\/revisions\/426394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}