New deal for Home Rule coalition

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS

Greenland’s coalition government recently signed an agreement which will see it through to the end of its mandate in 2006. Some 77 items were added to the government’s agenda including:

* A longer maternity leave, extended from 24 weeks to 35 weeks;
* Money for children: Each child under 18 years old would receive 1000 krøner ($200) every year for saving;
* A better school system;
* More training courses for unemployed people;
* Extension and enlargement of the Ilulissat airport.

The new coalition agreement was signed last Wednesday by the chairman of the Inuit Ataqatiqiit party and vice-premier, Josef Motzfeldt, and the chairman of the Siumut Party and premier, Hans Enoksen.