EU races to rethink Arctic policy as the global power grab continues

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is completing her two-day whistlestop tour of the Greenlandic capital, Nuuk, on Monday to further European Union-Arctic relations — and gather intelligence as the European Union maps out a new Arctic Policy. When the policy’s first iteration was published in 2021, it made little reference to growing security threats. Instead, the then-EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell emphasised climate change, raw materials and geostrategic influence as central to the document. But in the years since, the European Commission has admitted the policy needs an urgent revamp to address the changing security and defence…