Referendums related to the European Union by 51.9% to leave the European Union. Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, voted to leave the EC in a referendum in 1982 by 53% of voters. In 1972, four countries held referendums on the subject of the 1973 enlargement of the European Communities. Denmark, Ireland, and the United Kingdom were admitted as members of the EC, acceding on 1 January 1973. Two referendums were held in EU countries to permit them to ratify the Single European Act. In 1994, four countries, and one dependency, held referendums on membership of the EU, resulting in the 1995 enlargement of the European
Greenland–European Union relations EU. There was hope that the Icelandic negotiations on EU membership 2011–2013 could create an exception to the policy but the negotiations never got that far. "Gigantic Arctic possibilities" refers to natural resources such as mining. There is a very large iron deposit, Isua Iron Mine. Greenland can not finance the large cost of developing it and does not have such experience, so it has contracted a foreign company, which did not start to develop it because of low iron prices. Greenland is eligible for EU funding. Between 2007 and 2013, the EU allocated approximately €190 million, and between 2014