Tag: Søren Pape Poulsen
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 […]
International Round-Up: Had the stray missiles been Russian, the consequences would have been serious, says acting Danish foreign minister
The acting foreign minister, Jeppe Kofod, did not mince words after the news that a Polish farm was hit by missiles on Tuesday, killing two residents. “Together with Poland, we are part of the world’s strongest military alliance, NATO,” he told TV2. “A security issue for Poland is a security issue for all of us.” […]
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. […]
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. […]
Danish news overview: It’s official! Denmark could have its first gay prime minister!
Liberal leader Jakob Ellemann-Jensen is not the only prospective new prime minister among the blue bloc, as Søren Pape Poulsen has officially confirmed that he wants to stand as a candidate to become prime minister. As leader of the Conservatives, he said this week that he wants to improve Denmark without putting the country through […]
Political Round-Up: Red and blue blocks hang level with kingmakers waiting in the wings
The Red Bloc and the Blue Bloc are in the polls with 47.9 and 47.8 percent of the vote, according to the latest Epinion poll. Admittedly, the odds for Mette Frederiksen remaining prime minister after the next election have been extended to 5/6 by prominent bookmaker William Hill. Conservative leader Søren Pape Poulsen has been […]
Danish News Round-Up: Liberal Alliance confirms belief in the Conservative leader as future prime minister
Liberal Alliance leader Alex Vanopslagh has told Jyllands-Posten that there is no doubt in his mind that his conservative colleague Søren Pape Poulsen is a candidate for prime minister. Poulsen has not yet said himself that he is interested in the post, but he informed the same newspaper that “” before election day I will […]
Parliament to address the sky-high energy prices
Help on the way The development has prompted The Folketing must look at helping the less fortunate to pay their heating bills. According to Conservative leader Søren Pape Poulsen, only the hardest hit – people who risk losing their homes due to the bill increase – should be able to seek help. Minister of Energy […]
Mette’s wage threshold for foreign labor reconsidered: Government is open to action to address labor shortages
The Economist recently ranked Denmark’s economic performance in 2021 as the best out of 23 wealthy OECD countries, but its overall growth of 3.8 percent could have been even better if the government had made it easier for companies to recruit workers from countries without for the EU, claims e.g. Danish Industry and Danish Business. […]
Ellemann: I can easily see Pape as prime minister
– I think Søren Pape is an excellent politician. We share many views. We work closely and confidently. In the polls, the pair race is also close. In the latest Voxmeter poll, the Liberals stand at 14.9 percent of the vote, while the Conservatives stand at 14.5 percent. Thus, not many voters will have to […]
Ellemann and Pape want more manpower for companies
– The talk is too much about how we spend the money, rather than how we earn it. The challenge that companies face, namely the lack of manpower, is not really addressed in the speech, says Jakob Ellemann-Jensen. The chairman of the Conservatives, Søren Pape Poulsen, also lacks answers on how to obtain more labor. […]
Blue parties: The government moves in agricultural negotiations
– We have looked at the draft that we have received. We have some improvement proposals for that, says Liberal Party chairman Jakob Ellemann-Jensen. – We have sent them to the government. We must then discuss them with the government. The Conservatives’ chairman, Søren Pape Poulsen, believes that the negotiations in recent days have moved […]
Pape and Ellemann are ready for binding climate goals for agriculture
It appears from a letter that the chairmen of the two parties, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen (V) and Søren Pape Poulsen (K), have sent to Minister of Finance Nicolai Wammen (S). – We are certainly ready to accept a binding goal. And 40 to 60 percent sounds almost at the low end. But we are ready for […]
Mette Frederiksen will be questioned about mink at the end of the year
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) will testify in the so-called investigation commission on 9 December. This is stated in a list of witnesses from the Commission. The first interrogation will take place on October 7, and the Prime Minister is the last named witness on the list. However, time has been set aside for further […]
Conservatives reach out for double-digit number of mayoral posts
– We have made some internal goals, but there is no reason for me to resign. Of course, I have in my head some municipalities that are goals for us. I also have some municipalities where I think that here we must conquer. – I hope we maintain the eight we already have, but we […]
Conservatives want to establish more nursing homes
The party believes that in future, as a starting point, care homes will be established when new nursing home places are to be built in the municipality. Or at least in collaboration with private actors in the municipalities where there are no or few non-municipal nursing homes. Unlike many municipal nursing homes, the residents of […]
K-chairman will get more professionals by rethinking the primary school
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) has previously pointed to a lack of skilled labor as one of Denmark’s biggest challenges. By 2030, there will be a shortage of up to 100,000 skilled workers according to calculations from think tanks, the newspaper writes. The primary and lower secondary school can help to solve this problem, says […]
Tesfaye will closely study defeats over failed expulsions
– This is an area that the government has a strong focus on and follows closely. – Criminal foreigners are in no way welcome in Denmark, and therefore it is important for the Danish government that they should be able to be deported as far as possible, writes Mattias Tesfaye in a comment. In connection […]
Blue block requires millions for green agriculture
Now the five parties in the blue bloc have joined forces on a proposal that will once again put pressure on the government to find more money for the green transition in agriculture. The goal of the initiative is to secure jobs in the Danish food industry, while fulfilling the climate ambitions, says the Liberal […]
Blue block hopes for quick agricultural agreement after proposal
– The government’s proposal has many good beats. But it risks costing thousands of jobs. It requires funding to avoid. – So we show that there are other ways. Where we are still ambitious in the environmental part, we are more ambitious in the climate part, and where we also take the industry into account, […]
Pape: Government can lower the parades after agricultural initiatives
Blue Block has now announced that they want 750 million kroner a year for an agreement. – It is important to move forward in these negotiations, which are just running in circles. So now we are putting the cards on the table so that we do not risk agriculture losing 14,000 jobs, which will be […]
Total blue block requires 750 million for green agriculture
In a joint written statement, the five party chairmen state that the aim of the proposal is to secure jobs in the Danish food industry while meeting climate ambitions. – The government’s proposal will cost jobs in the parts of Denmark where it is often difficult to create new ones. That is why we are […]
Khader: K would not be unfriended with fanatical MeToo movement
– I think another factor that came into play in relation to the party’s decision is that one simply does not want to be unfriended with the very strong and militant and fanatical MeToo movement. – The party would have been exposed to a shitstorm by the MeToo movement if a different decision had been […]
Money for agricultural agreement divides parties
Of this, DKK 18.4 billion is to be found by earmarking more of farmers’ EU support for green initiatives. But Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, chairman of the Liberal Party, and Søren Pape Poulsen, chairman of the Conservatives, demand that the government allocate extra state funds to reduce farmers’ bills. They say this to Jyllands-Posten on Saturday. – […]
Ellemann and Pape reject the government’s agricultural ultimatum
Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Rasmus Prehn (S) stated on Thursday that the budget of more than DKK 22 billion in the government’s proposal for a climate agreement for agriculture is not up for debate. Otherwise, the parliamentary parties cannot be part of the forthcoming agricultural negotiations. But Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, chairman of the Liberal […]
OVERVIEW: Conservatives launched investigation into Khader
Below you can read about the whole process: * July 2, 2021: Five women tell in an article at DR that Naser Khader in professional contexts has exposed them to sexual abuse. The incidents should have taken place between 1999 and 2019. Naser Khader, who at the time was on sick leave from the Folketing […]
Khader attacks female witnesses from legal investigation
On Facebook, Naser Khader wrote on Friday that he suspects several of the women who have testified about sexual assaults committed by him for having hidden motives. Naser Khader was expelled from the Conservative parliamentary group in late August. And he left the party after a legal investigation led to a report of allegations of […]
Naser Khader: I have to eat it and see to it
Naser Khader, who is a non-attached member of the Folketing, says that he has asked “a handful” of lawyers to assess whether he could sue the women who in various media have accused him of sexual abuse. – The assessment from all the lawyers I have spoken to is that not one of the women […]
Naser Khader abandons plans for injury cases against women
Naser Khader abandons plans to sue the women who have accused him of sexual assault. He has stated this to Weekendavisen. According to the newspaper, a lawyer specializing in injury cases has advised Naser Khader not to sue the women. It comes after the lawyer read the lawyer’s investigation ordered by the Conservatives, which led […]
The government is lifting its footing from the accelerator
That was the backdrop when Finance Minister Nicolai Wammen (S) at a press conference on Monday presented the government’s proposal for a “tight and subdued” social budget for the coming year. The government will in particular focus on the welfare area. This must be done with initiatives that – in a year of local elections […]
Overall, Conservatives cool off Naser Khader
He is based on the results of a lawyer’s investigation into sexual offenses that Khader was accused of by five women before the summer. The study had found even more. – The charges were serious. And with the new accusations, the seriousness is more than confirmed, said Søren Pape Poulsen and continued: – We are […]
Commentator: Naser Khader’s exit could not be avoided
– With the testimonies that were from Danmarks Radio, Khadar had to have a very, very strong hand if he was to manage it, and he did not have that, he says. Naser Khader announced his resignation on Wednesday morning on Facebook. A legal investigation by the Conservatives has yielded a result that makes Naser […]
Khader has finished with the Conservatives after infringement cases
The Conservatives have informed Naser Khader that he can no longer be a member of the party – and he has therefore left the party. This is stated by both party chairman Søren Pape Poulsen at a press conference and Naser Khader himself on Facebook. This has happened in the wake of a lawyer’s investigation […]
Khader is done with Conservatives after violation cases
The Conservatives have informed Naser Khader that he can no longer be a member of the party, Khader himself states on Facebook. This has happened in the wake of a lawyer’s investigation that the party has conducted of stories in the press with accusations against Naser Khader about sexual abuse of various women. From the […]
Khader overshadows conservative progress
The Conservatives’ profile Naser Khader has been accused of sexual harassment for many years. A lawyer’s investigation has been launched, but no results have been obtained. And thus Khader is still a Member of Parliament for the party. – It’s a shadow that lies over the party. Even if they say they are awaiting the […]
Khader does not attend conservative summer group meeting
Naser Khader was reported sick with stress in April. It happened after stories, brought in Berlingske, about how he has repeatedly tried to intimidate critics. After the sick leave, DR brought several stories with women who said they had been sexually abused by Naser Khader. That prompted the party to launch a legal inquiry. Already […]
Engell: Ellemanns principper løser ikke blå bloks problemer
Det skal kunne betale sig at arbejde, velfærdssamfundet skal moderniseres, så danskernes valgmuligheder mellem offentlige og private løsninger øges, og der skal føres en stram og konsekvent udlændingepolitik. Sådan lyder nogle af de ti principper, som Venstres formand, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, har fremsat i et interview med Politiken forud for partiets sommergruppemøde, og som han mener, […]
Expert group: Criticism of calculations is not true
In February, a scenario with 870 inmates was mentioned. It ended up being far from the reality. But the interpretation of the calculations has not been correct, write five researchers from the group in a debate post. It is published on the department’s website. In fact, the estimate from SSI was that in the event […]
Vaccines and summer weather open up for noticeable corona loosening
– Now we have to see what the authorities say. But we are in a good place. Infection rates have been stable despite a major reopening, and now the weather has turned. – So there is much to suggest that we can look at restrictions such as masks, opening hours, assembly bans and more, says […]
Vaccines and summer weather open up for these corona relaxations
– Now we have to see what the authorities say. But we are in a good place. Infection rates have been stable despite a major reopening, and now the weather has turned. – So there is much to suggest that we can look at restrictions such as masks, opening hours, assembly bans and more, says […]
Former Prime Minister Poul Schlüter has died
Schlüter headed the government for 11 years and four terms, gaining control of both his party and the country’s economy while active in politics. – The family has lost a dear member, and our country has lost one of the most important people of our time. – It is with sadness that I from Poul […]
Former Prime Minister Poul Schlüter has died at the age of 92
Schlüter headed the government for 11 years and four terms, gaining control of both his party and the country’s economy while active in politics. – The family has lost a dear member, and our country has lost one of the most important people of our time. – It is with sadness that I from Poul […]
Pape agrees with the blue desire to resume the Lindholm plan
Since then, he has said that he does not want to “drum up a political majority”, and SF has opposed the plan, which apparently has removed a majority for an exit center on Langeland. And now an image is forming that the blue parties will return to the old plan from the VLAK government with […]
Denmark will reopen completely on May 21 – except for discos
– If you take a blank piece of paper, it will say that from 21 May, nightclubs and discos are closed. But everything else is open, albeit with some restrictions, says Søren Pape Poulsen. Students in the youth and adult education programs can return in full from 21 May, while the parties also agree on […]
No more checks at the door: Driving license access to corona pass, reports TV2
We all know what we did last summer: the number of corona cases dropped and summer life was close to normal. Ahead of this summer, TV2 reports that a majority in parliament supports the plans to ease the corona passport – and some experts are very concerned. Instead of being asked to show your corona […]
Conservatives want to iron out restrictions and start over
He thinks you should wipe the board clean and start over. – We are so far into the pandemic now that we have to start on a blank piece of paper. And then we have to make the guidelines that are needed, says Søren Pape Poulsen. – Everything is open unless we decide otherwise. Asked […]
Kofod: Completely inadmissible with a stone’s throw at the embassy
Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod (S) takes a “clear and unequivocal” distance from violent incidents to Friday’s demonstration in front of the Israeli embassy in Hellerup. He writes this on Twitter. Three people have so far been arrested for throwing stones at police. – Everyone has the right to speak peacefully in Denmark. But the incidents […]
Mette Frederiksen calls Brostrøm’s vaccine decision & quot; distinctive & quot;
The decision was made by the health authorities, headed by the Danish Health and Medicines Authority’s director Søren Brostrøm. On Tuesday, Mette Frederiksen emphasized several times in connection with Question Time in the Folketing that the decision was made solely by the Danish health authorities without political interference from the government or the Folketing. – […]
Pape: Party leaders should receive Johnson & amp; Johnson
Søren Pape Poulsen refers to the fact that the vaccines from Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca were referred to in a TV program as “scrapped vaccines”. Even if they are approved by the authorities. However, the vaccines have been taken out of the Danish vaccination program after they have been linked to severe blood clots. […]
Blue lots: Coronapas must be a driver’s license – not an entry ticket
Instead of requiring companies to see a valid corona passport, it should act as a driving license, where it is the passport holder’s responsibility to have a valid corona passport when checked by the authorities. – This means that we think we must take seriously that the corona passport is a hindrance and a restriction […]
Corona Round-Up: Decisive Johnson & Johnson decision next week could make or break our summer
There will be no announcement on the future of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine this week, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke has confirmed. Since the suspension in early April, the schedule for getting the nation vaccinated has been in disarray. Should it be discarded as AstraZeneca, there may be a long wait for full coverage. […]
Naser Khader apologizes for intimidating critics
Member of Parliament Naser Khader (K) has been accused of intimidating critics by contacting their employers to put pressure, and he now apologizes for the matter. He has been on sick leave since the stories came out, but has so far refused to comment on the matter. – Sorry. I lost track of time along […]
Khader apologizes for threatening critics
– Sorry. I lost track of time along the way in my political struggle. And sometimes I even lost my head. – My inner fighter got taken over in a number of situations. Unfortunately, this has happened over several years, he writes on Facebook. Party chairman Søren Pape Poulsen (K) has had a “dialogue” with […]
Blue Bloc blues: Left leans to the lowest ratings in history
A new Pape in the city Meanwhile, the Conservatives, led by Søren Pape Poulsen, have taken advantage of the Liberal Party’s downward trend and are moving from 6.6 percent in 2019 to 15.5 percent today. And the Liberal Party can look forward to even more Blue Bloc competition in the coming years. The right-wing party […]
New agreement advances reopening more than expected
A political majority will open for indoor serving at restaurants from April 21 with table reservations and corona passes according to chairman Søren Pape Poulsen (K).
FACTS: Critics of China were hidden for many years
* In an initial report, the commission has stated that police clearly gave illegal orders in 2012 and 2013. “Take the flag from them, come on!” Such was the order of the police radio during a state visit by the President of China in 2012. * Thus, the Constitution, the European Convention on Human Rights […]
Søren Pape: Khader should not scare critics
Pape stresses that MPs should not scare critics. – There can only be one attitude to that. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; And, of course, employers should not be contacted, even if we disagree with someone who happens to be working there. – I have been in dialogue with Naser […]
Party chairman: Khader should not intimidate critics
Pape stresses that MPs should not scare critics. – There can only be one attitude to that. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; And, of course, employers should not be contacted, even if we disagree with someone who happens to be working there. – I have been in dialogue with Naser […]
OVERVIEW: Commission investigates police actions during China visit
* The Constitution, Human Rights and the Police Act were violated. * The police’s illegal orders could be explained by a “mood” created by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the PET, the commission initially believed in 2017. * But the commission had not been given full access to documents in the Ministry of Foreign […]
The Danish People’s Party’s social rapporteur hit by corona
Karina Adsbøl of the Danish People’s Party is affected by corona, she writes on the social media Facebook. She is far from the first politician to be affected by the disease, which spread to Christiansborg in the late autumn. – Some say that corona is just a cold, but now I have for a few […]
Pape will advance reopening after fewer admissions than expected
The agreement was entered into by the parties on the basis of calculations from the Statens Serum Institut (SSI), which showed how much the various elements could be expected to increase the spread of infection. But since then, the development has been better than the forecasts, and according to Søren Pape Poulsen, this means that […]
Blue parties will reopen faster after fewer inpatients than expected
The agreement was entered into by the parties on the basis of calculations from the Statens Serum Institut (SSI), which showed how much the various elements could be expected to affect the spread of infection. But the development in the number of patients with corona since then should, according to the Conservatives’ chairman, Søren Pape […]
Conservatives want to open the border to vaccinated tourists
According to the party leader, it makes no sense for vaccinated citizens to be kept out of the country when they now no longer pose a risk of infection. – Let us open Denmark to everyone who has received an approved vaccine. Then they might as well come here and put a lot of money. […]
Denmark opens when everyone over the age of 50 has been vaccinated
– We agree that there is a very, very important fix point when everyone over the age of 50 is vaccinated. However, it is based on some assumptions that we can keep the infection down and that we use coronapas, says Mette Frederiksen. With Monday’s agreement, the Danes can now see an end to most […]
Hairdressers and other liberal professions reopen after Easter
However, it requires a coronavas pass that either shows a negative coronate test within 72 hours that one has been vaccinated or can demonstrate that one has previously been infected with coronavirus. However, children under the age of 15 are exempt. In addition, there will continue to be requirements for masks or visors. From the […]
Party leaders skeptical after previous mistakes in calculations
They say this on the way to negotiations on reopening in the Prime Minister’s Office on Thursday. – We attach less and less weight to the calculations. We believe that there is evidence that we have been positively surprised by the reality in relation to the forecasts, says chairman of the Danish People’s Party, Kristian […]
Party leaders rejoice over spring effect in new figures for reopening
The party leaders will negotiate on Thursday evening about further reopening of Denmark and meet in the Prime Minister’s Office. Prior to the meeting, calculations show that the coming warmer weather will have a positive effect on infection rates. – This time they have tried to include seasonal effect in the calculations. I think that […]
K: Open to children, young people and businesses when the infection is low
The topic is which parts of the country should open by April, to which the restrictions have been extended. – The children do not thrive, they need some education. The young people must return to their educations. And the companies are bleeding, they have money at work every day, we simply have to go one […]
Blue trio for the Prime Minister: Let’s meet online
However, with the Prime Minister’s trip to Israel on Thursday and subsequent self-isolation, there will only be meetings again from Tuesday to Friday. – The closure of Denmark has such major negative consequences for both human health and the companies’ chances of survival that we have a duty as a Folketing to act as soon […]