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	Mainstream political party condones file-sharing \| OUT-LAW.COM
		The Venstre, or Liberal Party, is the country's seventh largest party and holds 10 of the Norwegian Parliament's 169 seats with 5.9% of the vote.
		The party has also called for a relaxation on the laws of sampling copyrighted material, a reduction in the life of copyright and a ban on digital rights management technology.
		Though the Liberal Party is unlikely to form a government on its own, Norway is mostly run by coalition governments dominated by the Labour Party, so its policies could form part of a government programme without it having to win an election outright.
	www.out-law.com /page-7960 (669 words)

	Denmark - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Denmark's main exports are agricultural and industrial machinery, teak and oak furniture, meat, fish, and metals and metal manufactures; the chief imports are machinery, metals, motor vehicles, and fuels.
		Denmark was involved in numerous wars with Sweden and other neighbors; the participation of Christian IV (reigned 1588-1648) in the Thirty Years War (1618-48) and the wars of Frederick III (reigned 1648-70) with Sweden caused Denmark to lose its hegemony in the north to Sweden.
		Denmark was defeated and agreed in the London Protocol of 1852 to preserve a special status for the two duchies.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-denmark.html (2168 words)

	History of Denmark
		Denmark's provinces in today's southwestern Sweden were lost in 1658, and Norway was transferred from the Danish to the Swedish crown in 1814, following the defeat of Napoleon, with whom Denmark was allied.
		Denmark remained neutral during World War I. Despite its declaration of neutrality at the beginning of World War II, it was invaded by the Germans in 1940 and occupied until liberated by the Allied forces in May 1945.
		Denmark became a charter member of the United Nations and was one of the original signers of the North Atlantic Treaty.
	www.historyofnations.net /europe/denmark.html (818 words)

	Denmark. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Reformation (early 16th cent.) gradually gained adherents in Denmark, and during the reign of Christian III (1534–59) Lutheranism became the established religion.
		In the late 16th and early 17th cent., Denmark had a brilliant court, with a brisk intellectual and cultural life; the astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) was a major figure, and the Danish Renaissance style of architecture (strongly influenced by that of the Low Countries) was developed.
		Denmark was involved in numerous wars with Sweden and other neighbors; the participation of Christian IV (reigned 1588–1648) in the Thirty Years War (1618–48) and the wars of Frederick III (reigned 1648–70) with Sweden caused Denmark to lose its hegemony in the north to Sweden.
	www.bartleby.com /65/de/Denmark.html (1996 words)

	Party Politics in Denmark, 1963 to 2000
		Liberal Prime Minister Poul Hartling saw the results as a strong vote of confidence by the populace in his Government, and attempted to continue to govern as a minority.
		202 Liberal Party (Venstre, Danmarks liberale Parti--V) Legislative strength for the V declined after the original ICPP period, as the party shed roughly 35 percent of its seats from its ICPP high in 1958 to the induction of the 1972 legislature (26 percent of the seats in 1958, 17 percent in 1972).
		The party exploded onto the scene in the 1973 "earthquake" elections, when it drew 16 percent of the vote away from the four old parties to become the second-largest faction in the legislature.
	www.janda.org /ICPP/ICPP2000/Countries/2-ScandinaviaBenelux/20-Denmark/Denmark63-00.htm (2934 words)

	Denmark History - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		After Denmark had been weakened by Christian IV ’s unsuccessful intervention in the Thirty Year War (1625-1629), the conflict developed into a struggle for survival on Denmark’s part, and for a while the country was on the point of becoming part of a large Swedish Baltic empire.
		Conversely, liberal circles in Copenhagen demanded a democratic constitution for the monarchy and the inclusion within it of Schleswig in it, which conflicted with a long-standing promise that the duchies would never be separated.
		Despite its unclear position, Denmark had by the end of the war achieved de facto recognition as an allied power, due to the activities of the resistance movement and it was therefore invited to become a founding member of the United Nations in 1945.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/denmark/denmark_history_index.html (2542 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the Danish Folketing
		The district mandates won by a party at the multi-member constituency level are then subtracted from the total number of seats allocated to that party, and the remaining mandates are filled from forty supplementary or compensatory seats distributed among the three electoral regions.
		Until 1973, there were four major parties: the left-of-center Social Democratic Party; the right-of-center Liberal Party of Denmark (known in Danish as Venstre; literally "Left"); the right-wing Conservative People's Party; and the centrist Social-Liberal Party (known in Danish as Det Radikale Venstre; literally "The Radical Left"), a 1905 offshoot of Venstre.
		There were also a number of smaller yet by no means insignificant parties: from 1960 onwards, the most prominent of these was the leftist Socialist People's Party, which almost completely eclipsed the Communist Party of Denmark, from which it had split after opposing the Soviet Union's violent suppression of the 1956 Hungarian revolution.
	electionresources.org /dk (899 words)

	Denmark
		Denmark participates in the intergovernmental cooperation on justice and home affairs, for instance in the fight against terrorism, but is not involved in the supranational cooperation in this field.
		Denmark declared in 1992 that 'union citizenship is a supplement to national citizenship and not a replacement'.
		Denmark holds the Presidency of the ECOFIN Council and collaborates closely with the Greek Presidency of the euro group.
	www.emu.edu.tr /modeleu/denmark.htm (2640 words)

	TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 10. Fortress Denmark?. Sasha Polakow-Suransky. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Denmark, however, the DPP brought immigration to the forefront of political debate in a raw and uncompromising manner that was entirely new to the country's politics, and it did so at a time when few other parties were even willing to raise the issue.
		Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) Inge Dahl Sørensen proposed interning a portion of Denmark's Muslim population to preserve national security, while her fellow Liberal Party MP Birthe Rønn-Hornbech suggested restricting family reunifications from Muslim countries.
		Nor was the rhetorical assault on immigrants the sole province of right-wing parties.
	www.prospect.org /print/V13/10/polakow-suransky-s.html (2983 words)

	Denmark
		In Denmark, as in other European countries, there is rising concern about the intake of refugees and the extent of immigration; xenophobic attitudes - although not specifically antisemitic - are increasingly apparent in the rhetoric of even the mainstream political parties.
		Denmark has also received 500 quota refugees primarily from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan (quota refugees are usually selected from UNHCR camps) and just under 3,000 refugees from the war in Kosovo who were given temporary leave to remain in Denmark during the Kosovo war.
		Denmark has recently amended its Nationality Act so as to eliminate the previously automatic right of non-citizens between the ages of 18 and 23 who have lived in Denmark for 10 years or more to acquire citizenship by means of a 'fast-track' naturalization process.
	www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive4/denmark/denmark.htm (5602 words)

	CNN.com - New era dawns for Denmark - November 22, 2001
		The Liberals became the largest party for the first time since 1920 with 56 seats.
		Denmark is the second Scandinavian nation after Norway to oust ditch a Social Democratic government this year in favour of the centre-right.
		His party won just 36.6 percent of the vote at the last elections in 1998, the party's worst result since 1920.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/11/22/denmark.pm/index.html (629 words)

	CNN.com - Danish opposition set to win power - November 20, 2001
		Denmark's TV2 projected in an exit poll of about 5,000 voters that opposition Liberal Party leader Anders Fogh Rasmussen and supporters would win 96 seats against 79 for the Social Democrat-led bloc of Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.
		If the polls are right, the Liberals will take over as the highly taxed country's biggest party from the Social Democrats for the first time since 1924 with 33 percent of the vote.
		Denmark has healthy public surpluses, unemployment is at a 25-year low and the economy is still expanding despite the global slowdown.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/11/20/denmark.election (489 words)

	Denmark, Social Liberal or Radical Left (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Social Liberal or Radical Left Party was one of the original parties in Janda's 1950-1962 ICPP study.
		In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Radical Liberals (Radical Venstre) enjoyed a doubling of their parliamentary strength to about 15 percent of the seats, and the party headed a governmental coalition in 1968-1971.
		One of the four old parties, the RV's support remained around the five percent plateau after the original ICPP period, with the notable exception of the 15 percent it won in 1968 and held through 1973.
	www.janda.org /ICPP/ICPP1990/20-Denmark/Party204/Party204-hj.htm (277 words)

	EPP-ED in the Member States: Denmark
		The elections in 2001 was historic, because the Liberal Party became the largest party for the first time since 1924, and because the right-of-centre parties together gained a majority for the first time since 1929.
		The centre parties in the Folketing lost their traditional influence on the formation of the government.
		The seats are allocated to the parties on the basis of proportional representation, so that the constitution of the Folketing very closely reflects the party-political preferences of the total electorat.
	www.epp-ed.org /inthememberstates/memberstates/en/denmark_power.asp (576 words)

	Venstre (Denmark) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The party is a member of Liberal International and sits with the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party in the European Parliament.
		Some ascribe it to be a classical liberal party, since the current leader, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, known for his authorship of the book "Fra Socialstat til Minimalstat" (English: From Social State to Minimal State), advocated an extensive reform of the Danish welfare state, along classical liberal lines, i.e.
		The use of the word for "left" in the name of the Danish political party Radikale Venstre and the Norwegian party Venstre is meant to refer to Liberalism and not Socialism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_Party_(Denmark) (794 words)

	Denmark: Angus Reid Global Monitor
		Denmark is one of three EU countriesâ”along with Britain and Swedenâ”that decided not to adopt the Euro in January 2002.
		Denmarkâs main political parties have all agreed to back the proposed body of law, which seeks to simplify overlapping treaties and protocols, enhance decision-making within the EU, and enable a sense of belonging among continental citizens.
		In 2003, Denmark committed 496 soldiers to the United States-led coalition effort in Iraq, who are serving under British command in the southern city of Basra.
	www.angus-reid.com /tracker/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=5618 (1234 words)

	Denmark: In Depth : History : Postwar Denmark \| Frommers.com
		However, by 1989 Denmark was leading the world in the development of a liberal social agenda.
		In 1993 Denmark also observed the 50th anniversary of the virtual overnight rescue of 8,000 of its Jewish citizens, who were smuggled out of the country in 1943 into neutral Sweden.
		Copenhagen is now her address, but the Crown Princess of Denmark was born in the Australian state of Tasmania, the daughter of two educators.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/denmark/0220032628.html (518 words)

	Denmark Liberal Party: No UN Mandate Needed for War - Sean Hannity Discussion
		Denmark should not need a UN resolution to participate in international military actions against so-called rogue states to prevent the distribution of weapons of mass destruction, the Liberal Party says.
		Daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten reported Thursday that the Liberal Party, the party of PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen, had issued a new proposal for Denmark's line on the United Nations and the Security Council.
		The Liberal spokesman on foreign affairs, Troels Lund Poulsen, noted that if a country prevented a solution, the UN should have the means to take military action.
	www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=7616 (922 words)

	InternationalReports.net : Denmark 2002
		His party Venstre, is called the Liberal party, although it is far less liberal than our own.
		The church established itself in Denmark in the middle of the 19th century and made a lot of initiatives.
		But I think that Denmark has shown that it is possible to combine a free market with social responsibility and a certain degree of government-financed welfare.
	www.internationalreports.net /europe/denmark/2002/ifgoods.html (1160 words)

	Denmark.dk: Official website - Denmark - The Anders Fogh Rasmussen Government (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He was Chairman of The Liberal Partyâs youth branch 1974-1976, before graduating in economics at the University of Aarhus and joining the Folketing in 1978.
		He was one of the players behind The Liberal Partyâs plan to give the citizens greater choice with regard to for instance hospital treatment and care for the elderly, and as Minister for the Interior and Health since 2001, he has the task of trimming the health service and reducing the waiting lists.
		She was Chairman of the Danish Association of Liberal Students 1988-1990 and Vice-President of the Inter-national Federation of Liberal and Radical Youth 1989-1993.
	www.denmark.dk /portal/page?_pageid=374,520573&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL (2924 words)

	Liberals won Danish elections as expected (KurdishMedia.com) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Denmark held general elections yesterday; the election resulted in a big victory for the liberal wing as expected.
		The new liberal government will need the support of the far-right on many issues since the social democrats are expected to be reluctant to cooperate with the liberals so shortly after the party’s defeat.
		Denmark has an old population and the country needs guest workers, but many refuse to come, some do come but return to their home country because they do not feel welcome.
	www.kurdmedia.com /reports.asp?id=656 (1377 words)

	The extreme right wing in Denmark
		The party is a very nationalist party, for example on the question of the EU it wants Denmark to leave the union – but on a bourgeois basis.
		The right-wing government is composed of the liberal party (Venstre) and the conservative party.
		As most parties have moved to the right on the question of immigration in the election campaign – since none of them wanted (or could) explain why workers felt their living standards decrease, the tone was set for very hard attacks on immigrants.
	www.marxist.com /Europe/denmark_extreme_right.htm (1054 words)

	Denmark Government Information
		Denmark is divided into 13 counties (Amter) and 271 municipalities (Kommuner).
		However, with immigration high on the November 2001 election campaign agenda, the Danish People's Party doubled its number of parliamentary seats; this was a key factor in bringing into power a new minority right-of-center coalition government led by Liberal Party chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen (no relation to Nyrup Rasmussen).
		Addressing the costs and benefits of the Denmark’s comprehensive social welfare system, restraining taxes, and immigration are among the key issues on the current domestic political agenda.
	www.traveldocs.com /dk/govern.htm (851 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Denmark (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The parliamentary structure of government found in Denmark places significant constraints on the political autonomy of the chief executive.
		Despite the fact that the Social Democratic Party has been the dominant political power for most of the past 50 years, Denmark remains a competitive multiparty democracy.
		The new law was to come into force on 1 July 2002, the date on which Denmark was due to assume the rotating presidency of the EU.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Den1.htm (283 words)

	CNN.com - Rise of Denmark's 'Mr Perfect' - November 27, 2001
		He was elected to parliament at the age of 20 and became leader of his party's youth wing.
		The Liberals' surprise election defeat in 1998 was blamed on fears its leaders planned to dismantle the welfare state.
		Throughout his leadership, Fogh Rasmussen has gone out of his way to prove to voters that his party is committed to maintaining benefits, the health system, and care for the elderly.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/11/21/denmark.profile (631 words)

	Facts About Denmark: StayresDenmark.com
		Denmark has evolved into a modern, prosperous nation that is participating in the political and economic integration of Europe.
		Denmark is the easiest Scandinavian country in which to travel, both in terms of cost and distance, but its landscape is the region's least dramatic: very green and flat, largely farmland interrupted by innumerable pretty villages.
		Denmark has an abundance of picturesque villages and towns, historic castles and monuments, and a coastline which varies delightfully from broad sandy beaches to small coves and gentle fjords.
	www.stayresdenmark.com /about-denmark.html (411 words)

	GagWatch » Denmark
		The Scotsman (via) reports that one of the imams at the centre of the Muhammed Cartoons Controversy, is to be investigated by Danish police over allegations that he issued death threats against a moderate Muslim politician.
		According to the Brussels Journal (via) he is one of a number of Danish imams that have been reported to the police for their part in inciting hatred against Denmark among Muslims both in the Middle East and elsewhere.
		The Danish Deputy Prime Minister, Bendt Bendtsen (Conservative Party) agrees with Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Liberal Party) that the role of the imams in inciting hatred against Denmark should be investigated.
	www.pulpmovies.com /gagwatch/category/europe/denmark (1714 words)

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