Explained in more detail at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_and_the_European_Union

Essentially it was an argument about fish.

How does that work?

I imagine they have free trade and travel with Denmark, but do they not have the same access with the rest of the EU?

Undisciplined

The EU wasn't formed until 1993 so they never left it as such.

While Denmark joined what was then the EEC in the early 1970s, Greenland obtained home rule in the early 1980s and voted to leave what was then the EEC around that time.

Politics_And_Law

econ

From the Snowy North, the EU and the Euro Beckons (The Economist)

denlillaapan

The EU wasn't formed until 1993 so they never left it as such.

While Denmark joined what was then the EEC in the early 1970s, Greenland obtained home rule in the early 1980s and voted to leave what was then the EEC around that time.