11 Hits in a terrific news year

Glimpses of the past year.

January 10, Sermitsiaq 2024/1-2. Maga caps: The newspaper tells about Trump Jr.'s 4 hour and 13 minute visit to Nuuk, where he handed out Maga caps and invited the local Maga fans to lunch at Hans Egede. Trump Jr was followed by, among others, Charlie Kirk, who was shot dead during a speech in Utah in September.
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2025 Became one terrific news year. Nothing was as it used to be – and Sermitsiaq's journalists had to be on the move around the clock for most of the year.

It doesn't bother us. Most journalists love when something happens – and the deadline is tight. That is why you become a journalist.

2025 Became one terrific news year. Nothing was as it used to be – and Sermitsiaq's journalists had to be on the move around the clock for most of the year.

It doesn't bother us. Most journalists love when something happens – and the deadline is tight. That is why you become a journalist.

But admittedly. It was almost too much in 2025.

Also because it is important to keep your nose on track. We write about Greenland for Greenlanders – and it can be a challenge to hold the line when the entire world press is knocking. After all, there are also the local cases about the school system, the social conditions, the flight prices, the fishing policy – everything that matters for ordinary people.

It started violently

The year had barely begun when it broke loose. The poinsettia was still pilled down when Trump jr. announced his arrival in Greenland. That was the starting point for one news year, where Trump and his interest in Greenland have regularly drawn headlines.

2025 Has also been a major election year with both elections to come Inatsisartut and the municipal councils. After the elections followed the big game for the ministerial and mayoral posts - and that's it usually at least as exciting as the election itself.

We have selected 11 of the year's stories, which help to characterize the 2025 that we say goodbye to on New Year's Eve. It could easily be 11 others events, because what is seen always depends on the eyes that see it, but we believe that these are some of the events that will be remembered for the next one as well year.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

17 January, Sermitsiaq 2025/3 The Americans are coming: Greenland can look forward to an invasion of American tourists when United Airlines opens a summer route to Nuuk. The American tourists are particularly interested in boat trips, says Nuuk Water Taxi.
February 28, Sermitsiaq 2025/9 Vote fishing: The election campaign for Inatsisartut is well under way. This week, the newspaper can report that most parties – apart from IA – support oil exploration and extraction in Greenland, even though a majority in Inatsisartut decided back in 2021 to drop oil exploration.
March 14, Sermitsiaq 2025/11 Election victory: The Inatsisartut election on 11 March ended with a big victory for Demokraatit and Jens-Frederik Nielsen, while Siumut had to concede a crushing defeat. After the election, Jens-Frederik Nielsen reaches out to all parties with a desire to form a broad government - and it also ends with a nail polish suisut with participants from all parties except Naleraq.
March 21, Sermitsiaq 2025/12 Protests: It turned into one of the biggest demonstrations in Greenland's history, when thousands of Greenlanders from Qaanaaq to Nuuk protested against President Trump's wishes to make the country American.
June 20, Sermitsiaq 2025/25 French visit: The eyes of the world community were once again directed towards Greenland when French President Macron paid an official visit to Nuuk on 15 June. The message was clear – France supports the fight against the American wishes to take over the country.
September 26, Sermitsiaq 2025/39 Apologies: Denmark has officially apologized for the spiral case, but that is not enough, says the chairman of Naalakkersuisut Jens-Frederik Nielsen at Inatsisartut's opening. We owe it to the women concerned and our entire society to get to the bottom of this matter, Nielsen believes.
November 7, Sermitsiaq 2025/45 Burgere: Journalism is about much more than big politics. This week, the newspaper was able to report that there was a queue when the country's first Burger King opened in Sisimiut.

 

December 5, Sermitsiaq 2025/49 Redundancies: The fishing and catching organization KNAPK is in high gear after several years with a significant operating deficit. Earlier this year, the chairman Nikkulaat Jeremiassen was overthrown at the general meeting and replaced by Lars Pele Blytmann. This week it was the turn of the association's director Vittus Qujaukitsoq, who received a notice of dismissal after three years in the post.

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