Withdrawal of Greenland from the European Communities

Greenland Treaty
Treaty amending, with regard to Greenland, the Treaties establishing the European Communities
Signed	13 March 1984
Location	Brussels
Effective	1 February 1985
Signatories	10
Depositary	Government of the Italian Republic
Languages	All 8 official Languages of the European Communities
Full text
	Greenland Treaty at Wikisource

After being a part of the European Communities (EC) for twelve years, Greenland withdrew in 1985. It had joined the EC in 1973 as a county of Denmark, even though a majority in Greenland was against joining. In a consultative referendum in 1982, 53% of the electorate of Greenland voted to withdraw from the Communities.^[1] This latter referendum became possible after the introduction of home rule in Greenland in 1979. Following its withdrawal, which was regulated through the Greenland Treaty, the relationship between Greenland and the EC was partly settled through an association under Overseas Countries and territories (OCT) status.^[2] In recent years, the Greenlandic withdrawal from the European Communities has marginally been referred to as "Greenxit".^[3]^[4]

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^ "Glossary of summaries - Overseas Countries and Territories". EUR-Lex. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
^ Patel, Kiran Klaus (2018). "Something new under the sun?". In Martill, Benjamin; Staiger, Uta (eds.). Something new under the sun?: The lessons of Algeria and Greenland. Rethinking the Futures of Europe. UCL Press. pp. 114–120. doi:10.2307/j.ctt20krxf8.18. ISBN 978-1-78735-276-6. JSTOR j.ctt20krxf8.18. Retrieved 2021-10-20. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^ Riddoch, Lesley (2017-03-31). McSmörgåsbord: What post-Brexit Scotland can learn from the Nordics. Luath Press Ltd. ISBN 978-1-910324-91-2.