The EU’s long-awaited Arctic strategy will be finalised this autumn, Síkela tells Euractiv
NUUK, Greenland – It is the “decade of the Arctic” and the EU is moving to secure its place in a region increasingly shaped by geopolitical rivalry and tensions with the US.
Speaking against the picture-postcard backdrop of Nuuk’s old harbour from the terrace of the European Commission’s new office in Greenland’s capital, Jozef Síkela, the EU commissioner for international partnerships, said the Arctic was already “reshaping global politics.”
“The Arctic will become… a very important part of the Earth,” Síkela told Euractiv, noting that the region is warming “four times faster than the global average” and rapidly emerging as “a space defined by new shipping routes, critical raw materials and strategic connectivity.”
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