The European Commission appears to have been snubbed in a statement from several member states defending Greenland, following renewed threats by Donald Trump to seize the autonomous Danish island.
The EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, was not included in the statement, which was posted on Tuesday and instead signed by the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, plus the United Kingdom and Greenland itself.
Indeed, they are not part of the EU, as you say and I said before. The fact that we have certain bilateral treaties so that they benefit from some things does not change the above, we can give EU funds to African countries as aid or have freedom of movement in Switzerland but neither case nor other makes them “somewhat members” of the EU.