In a blow to US President Donald Trump’s plans to annex the Arctic territory, a once-marginal party that favors a slow separation from Denmark is set to lead the next government. The pro-business Demokraatit party – whose platform calls for maximizing “personal freedom” and ensuring that the public sectors “never stand in the way of” private enterprise – gained seven seats in Greenland’s Inatsisartut,

Greenland is set to start talks on building a coalition after voters backed a slower path to independence, spurning US President Donald Trump’s approaches.

Greenland’s center-right, pro-independence Demokraatit Party won a shocking victory in parliamentary elections Tuesday, reaffirming enthusiasm for home rule even as President Trump says he is determined that the U.