Donald Trump is not the first US President to make an offer of buying Greenland from Denmark – but he might be the last.

There’s a man in the EU who has already led a country out of the bloc. His name is Uffe Ellemann-Jensen. He’s a former foreign minister of Denmark who handled negotiations on Greenland after its citizens voted to leave the EU in 1982.

Greenland’s parliament has voted in favour of removing a 25-year ban on uranium mining, paving the way for an industrial boom that the Arctic island hopes will help it gain independence from former colonial master Denmark.