Tag: Mette Frederiksen
Minister of Defense on leave due to health hazard
Troels takes the reinsIn his absence, Troels Lund Poulsen will step in as Minister of Defense – a position that the Liberal Party will balance with its current duties as Minister of Economy. A large number of Ellemann-Jensen’s colleagues have expressed their support for his post, including Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and party colleagues Inger…
Dane of the year: Who is Ariel and who is Ursula?
Given that 2022 brought us a general election, our ‘Dane of the Year’ should definitely be a politician. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Alex Vansplagh and Inge Støjberg – the respective leaders of the Social Democrats, the Moderates, the Liberal Alliance and the Danish Democrats – could all have been worthy inclusions based…
Liberals severely criticized by the blue colleagues after the revival of the quota refugee system
A huge turnaround has angered several political parties. Five days before the parliamentary elections on November 1, Venstre (V) representatives said that Denmark’s borders should not be opened for quota refugees. But now the SVM government led by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has proposed to accept 500 quota refugees per year. – It is a…
Danish News Round-Up: Four films in the running for the Oscars
Two Danish documentaries among the shortlist‘A House Made of Splinters’, a documentary film shot in a Ukrainian orphanage and directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont is nominated in the Documentary Feature Film category, while ‘The Territory’, a Danish-Brazilian-American film shot in the Amazon about indigenous people and the environment , is also among the nominees in…
Round-Up in Danish News: Outrage after the Prime Minister fails on the promise of clean drinking water before the election
Another storm threatens to engulf the newly assembled Danish government following the political and public backlash against plans to abolish one of the spring holidays. READ MORE: Church, vocal minorities and academics oppose plans to abolish public holidays, but businesses are mostly in favor Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has been accused of going back on…
Church, vocal minorities and academics oppose plans to abolish public holidays, but businesses are mostly in favour
The new government has decided to cut one of the three public holidays that Danes enjoy every spring – the timing of all three always depends on how early or late Easter can be. READ MORE: Big changes on the way: New government unveils a surprising platform From 2024, Denmark can expect to say goodbye…
Big change on the way: New government unveils a surprising platform
After a record 42 days of negotiations, Denmark has finally got a new government. And for the first time in 40 years, it will consist of parties across the middle – the Social Democrats, the Left and the Moderates. The three party leaders – Mette Frederiksen, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen and Lars Løkke Rasmussen – unveiled their…
Leader of the week: Den Borgenske sindro
Over five weeks ago, we had a general election that established an unusual balance between the red and blue bloc in the Folketing. Mette in the middleIn the middle, former prime minister Løkke Rasmussen tinted his new party, the Moderates, a purple shade to become a stepping stone between the blocs. However, his effort was…
Thomas and Louise quit
– It has been an enormous joy to make radio programs together with Thomas Nordegren and all the fantastic colleagues and that is why I have continued for twelve years! But it’s better to stop before it starts to go downhill and that’s why the time is right now. I have never worked for so…
This week’s editorial: Pariah states and individuals
It is truly sad when the leaders of this world lie in broad daylight. Putin does it, Trump did it, and their relatives and lieutenants do it. They can’t be trusted – it’s that simple. Fact deniers, lie perpetratorsSøren Kjær, a Danish parliamentarian in the 19th century, became famous when his opponent in a debate…
Majority down the middle looks increasingly likely: discussions start today
There are many upheavals ahead of bringing together the parties that will have a majority in the Danish Parliament over the next four years – and quite possibly form the next government. Coalition on the cards?The current government, or at least the one that Mette Frederiksen dissolved on Wednesday, consisted exclusively of members of the…
A record number of women elected to the Danish Parliament
Voice magnets Mette and Inger Looking at the top ten politicians who attracted the most personal votes, women also fared well. Mette Frederiksen topped the list with 60,687 personal votes, followed by Inger Støjberg (47,211), Lars Løkke Rasmussen (38,439), Alex Vanoplasgh (38,284) and Jacob Mark (31,235). The top ten were rounded out by Magnus Heunicke…
Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod fails to make it to the Folketing
Sofie pays forkIn other election news, Sofie Carsten Nielsen has resigned as leader of Radikale in the wake of a disastrous election last night. It is still uncertain whether she will even get enough votes to return to the Folketing, which prompted Nielsen to resign. Nielsen, who was once a close ally of Mette Frederiksen’s…
2022 parliamentary election collection: Enhedslisten warns the prime minister to stick to the left bloc
Enhedslist’s political rapporteur Mai Villadsen has called on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen not to go outside the red bloc in her efforts to form a new government. After the results, she admitted to DR that she finds it difficult to see any common ground between her party and Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s new party, the Moderates.…
Election in 2022: Radicals emerge as kingmakers as blue bloc parties put pressure on leader Sofie Carsten Nielsen to join them
The votes are all in after yesterday’s general election, and the red bloc led by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen appears to have the necessary 90 mandates to achieve a majority. Or do they? Pernille Vermund, the leader of Nye Borgerlige, last night invited Sofie Carsten Nielsen, her colleague in Radikale, to join Blå Blok, and…
Climate summary: Could Denmark soon have a new Swedish nuclear power plant as a neighbour?
Plans to build a new nuclear power plant near the decommissioned Barsebäck nuclear power plant are taking shape in Skåne in southern Sweden – an area just over 20 km across the Øresund from Copenhagen. For decades, the Danish government tirelessly campaigned for its closure due to its proximity to Denmark. But now it appears…
Local Round-Up: Man shot and killed in Christiania last night
A 23-year-old man was shot and killed in Christiania on Wednesday 26 October between 17:00 and 18:00. He was apparently hit at close range on Pusherstreet, the area of freetown where cannabis is commonly sold in the open. The victim is a well-known figure in the environment. Suspects are SomalisPolice have released a description of…
Conservatives fall to the same level as the Liberal Alliance: Is it time for Pape to give up the PM dream?
Pressure is mounting on conservative leader Søren Pape Poulsen to withdraw his candidacy to become the next prime minister after a dismal showing in the latest Epinion poll for DR. Conducted on October 20, it reveals the Conservatives are running exactly level with Blue Bloc stablemate the Liberal Alliance. Both would get 7 percent of…
Behold our most golden queen: Diamond’s eternal immortality beckons
The timing of the Copenhagen cultural festival Golden Days could not have been better. Coinciding with the month chosen to celebrate Queen Margrethe II’s golden jubilee, a full 50 years and eight months after she acceded to the Danish throne in January 1972, Her Majesty visited Kongens Nytorv on September 2, where 50 female icons…
Blue block united on FE study
With the general election fast approaching, Blå Blok is clamoring for the need for an investigation into the Defense Intelligence Service’s (FE) foreign intelligence service and the recent imprisonment of its former chief Lars Findsen. Conservative leader Søren Pape Poulsen and his Liberal colleague Jakob Ellemann-Jensen recently outlined the potential investigation at a press conference.…