They’re an Overseas Country and thus not economically integrated into the EU, though they have a “most favoured third country” type status that is they will never be treated worse when it comes to tariffs and such than the best-treated non-member country.
OCT citizens are EU citizens so they have freedom of movement and everything, can even vote in EU elections as long as they happen to reside within ordinary EU territory. I think the French overseas territories even regularly vote in EU elections. It’s a clusterfuck of asterisks.
Most OCTs have that status because they’re so far away from the mainland that the trade they’re doing with the EU is a relatively small portion of their overall trade, that doesn’t really apply to Greenland they left over the EU fisheries policy. Which is also the reason the Faroer and Iceland aren’t in. It would also be the reason why Norway isn’t in if the actual reason wasn’t them being a rich petrostate. The fisheries policy really sucks.
They’re an Overseas Country and thus not economically integrated into the EU, though they have a “most favoured third country” type status that is they will never be treated worse when it comes to tariffs and such than the best-treated non-member country.
OCT citizens are EU citizens so they have freedom of movement and everything, can even vote in EU elections as long as they happen to reside within ordinary EU territory. I think the French overseas territories even regularly vote in EU elections. It’s a clusterfuck of asterisks.
Most OCTs have that status because they’re so far away from the mainland that the trade they’re doing with the EU is a relatively small portion of their overall trade, that doesn’t really apply to Greenland they left over the EU fisheries policy. Which is also the reason the Faroer and Iceland aren’t in. It would also be the reason why Norway isn’t in if the actual reason wasn’t them being a rich petrostate. The fisheries policy really sucks.