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  List of Prime Ministers of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The office of Prime Minister is described on Prime Minister of Denmark.
Denmark's current Prime Minister is Anders Fogh Rasmussen representing the Liberal party Venstre.
Prime Minister of Norway, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Finland
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Denmark   (275 words)

  
 Prime Minister of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Prime Minister of Denmark (Danish: Statsminister) is the head of government in Danish politics.
The current Prime Minister of Denmark is Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who leads a coalition between the Liberal Party and the Conservative People's Party as head of the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen II.
From 1848 to 1855 the head of government was titled "premierminister" (Prime Minister).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Denmark   (139 words)

  
 Thorvald Stauning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After participating as minister of the serving 1913-1920, he returned to government as prime minister in 1924 - for the minority cabinet which would survive until 1926.
Stauning's second cabinet lasted until Operation Weserübung, the Nazi occupation of Denmark began April 9, 1940, when the cabinet was widened to include all political parties, called the.
Thorvald Stauning, whose latter government was in coalition with the Radikale party and sympathetic to its pacifist doctrines, joined other European appeasers of Hitler in trying to avoid the outbreak of war.
www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Thorvald_Stauning   (516 words)

  
 Poul Nyrup Rasmussen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (born June 15, 1943) was the Prime Minister of Denmark from January 25, 1993 to November 27, 2001.
The social democratically led government of Rasmussen continued to aim at greater equality in society and made use of limited classical Keynesianism in connection with the so-called kick-start of 1993-94 as its economic policy.
Denmark experienced under Rasmussen the most comprehensive radical privatization of publicly owned assets in the 20th century.
www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Poul_Nyrup_Rasmussen   (326 words)

  
 Remarks by President Bush And Prime Minister Rasmussen of Denmark
This is why Denmark contributes with more than 500 troops in Iraq; why we make an active contribution to the joint allied effort in Afghanistan; why we wish to promote democracy and reform in the Middle East; and why we urge all parties to find a peaceful solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Denmark is one of the most generous donors and we're going to focus even more on Africa in the future.
Denmark is a close ally and a partner of the United States.
www.dakotavoice.com /200507/20050706_2.asp   (3736 words)

  
 I.Emsis and A.F.Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark, discussed topical EU and international security issues
This is the first meeting of I.Emsis with his Danish counterpart in the status of the Prime Minister of a European Union (EU) and NATO Member State.
Danish Prime Minister A.F.Rasmussen expressed his gratitude for this meeting also because he was one of the first Danish government representatives who visited Latvia soon upon it had re-established independence in autumn of 1991 when A.F.Rasmussen was the Minister of Economy.
The Prime Ministers stressed that it is important to continue activities in the coalition forces until stabilisation of the situation.
www.mk.gov.lv /index.php/en?id=1536&Dir=Stop&currPos=0   (676 words)

  
 List of Prime Ministers of Denmark - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This is a list over the heads of government in Denmark, from the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in 1848 until present.
Between 1848 and 1918 the President of the Danish Privy Council, Konseilspræsident in Danish, as was the head of operative government in Denmark.
Note: ¹ 1943-1945: during the occupation of Denmark by Nazi Germany, the country was without a responsible Prime Minister.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Prime_Minister_of_Denmark   (150 words)

  
 Letter to Prime Minister of Denmark, May 1915
Noting that Denmark recognized "the political equality of all men and women," the letter contrasted "the idea and practice" of human rights with the "dreadful impact of the force-idea," which the war exemplified.
Yet we come with the particular confidence to your government, Prime Minister, which precisely during this dreadful impact of the force-idea which persists in all countries has advanced by a great step through the political equality of all men and women of your land, the idea and practice of their rights.
We know, Prime Minister, that the neutral countries contributed not only material generosity to soften the misery and the pains of the unhappy sacrifices of the world war, but also that united efforts were made to hasten the end of this murderous bloodshed of whole races.
womhist.binghamton.edu /hague/doc6.htm   (740 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Profile: Denmark's new prime minister
To win the post of Danish Prime Minister, the leader of the Liberal (Venstre) Party, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has had to undergo a political transformation, crossing from his party's right wing to become a great defender of the welfare state.
Born in 1953 and raised on a farm in the countryside in West Denmark, Rasmussen is an archetypal member of the Liberal Party.
He was minister of tax affairs from 1987 to 1992, but left the post after opposition claims he had misled parliament.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1669243.stm   (739 words)

  
 CNN.com - Right sweeps to victory in Denmark - November 21, 2001
Denmark is the second Scandinavian nation after Norway to oust ditch a Social Democratic government this year in favour of the centre-right.
In Sweden, Social Democratic Prime Minister Goran Persson faces an election in September 2002.
The new prime minister will have to form a government with the Conservatives and centrist parties but will depend on informal backing from the far-right Danish People's Party which is strongly anti-immigrant.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/11/21/denmark.result0440   (542 words)

  
 Minister of defense in Denmark resigns
Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he "deeply" regretted Jensby’s decision and said 41-year-old lawmaker and former army officer Soeren Gade would be appointed as the new defense minister today.
Denmark is the latest U.S. ally where the government has been criticized and questioned over its reasons for backing the war.
A former military intelligence analyst claimed last week that the prime minister lied to lawmakers in 2002 when he sought parliamentary support for the war to oust Saddam.
www.showmenews.com /2004/Apr/20040424News017.asp   (352 words)

  
 Prime Minister of Denmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Prime Minister of Denmark (Danish languageDanish: ''Statsminister'') is the head of government in Danish politics.
The current Prime Minister of Denmark is Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who leads a coalition between the Liberal Party (Denmark)Liberal Party and the Conservative People's Party (Denmark)Conservative People's Party as head of the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen II/.
A group of 24 Danes filed suit against Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen over the Scandinavian country's role in the Iraq war.
www.infothis.com /find/Prime_Minister_of_Denmark   (320 words)

  
 Press Release Archive: DANISH PRIME MINISTER TO RECEIVE HONORARY DEGREE AT THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen was born in 1953 in Ginnerup, Denmark.
That same year the Prime Minister served as the consultant with the Danish Federation of Crafts and Small Industries, and became at age 25 the youngest deputy in the Danish Parliament.
Prime Minister Rasmussen is also a prolific writer, with works including “Showdown with the Tax System,” “Welfare Under Threat,” “Denmark in the Year 2000,” and “Love of Work and Welfare — an Impossible Cocktail?”.
www.gwu.edu /~media/pressreleases/03-20-02-DanishPM.htm   (378 words)

  
 News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
ISLAMABAD, April 15 : President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz have greeted Denmark on occasion of the birth day of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II falling today (April 16).
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in his message of greetings to the Prime Minister of Denmark Anders Fogh Rasmussen on the occasion of the birthday of HM Queen Margrethe II said that Denmark and Pakistan enjoyed friendly and cooperative relations.
The President and the Prime Minister on this occasion also expressed their best wishes for long life, good health and happiness of the Queen and the Prime Minister and for the ever-growing progress and prosperity of the people of Denmark.
www.pakistanlink.com /Headlines/Apr05/15/07.htm   (187 words)

  
 Commencement Speaker -- Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Prime Minister of Denmark.
Rasmussen became Prime Minister of Denmark in 2001.
In the Parliament, Prime Minister Rasmussen has served as a member of the Fiscal Affairs Committee, as Vice-Chairman of the Housing Committee, and as the Vice-Chairman of the Economic and Political Affairs Committee.
www.hsc.edu /commencement/rasmussen.html   (220 words)

  
 eubfn.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Although in his early political career Mr Rasmussen was regarded as a strong believer in free market economics, in government he has taken a less harsh line on the welfare state than some had predicted.
He is firmly committed to Europe and has stated the view that Denmark's four opt-outs are not in the country's best interests.
He served as minister for tax affairs from 1987 to 1992 and was also minister of economic affairs for the last two years of that period.
www.eubfn.com /arts/gpm-de.htm   (223 words)

  
 Articles - Knud Kristensen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Knud Kristensen (26 October 1880 - September 1962) was Prime Minister of Denmark 7 November 1945 to 13 November 1947 in the first elected government after the German occupation of Denmark during World War II.
Knud Kristensen resigned as Prime Minister when the Folketing passed a vote of no confidence because of his enthusiasm for incorporating Southern Schleswig into Denmark as the Allies were offering.
Denmark had lost Schleswig and Holstein in the second war of Schleswig in 1864, and had regained Northern Schleswig in the aftermath of World War I as a result of the Schleswig Plebiscite, but had failed to regain Southern Schleswig.
lastring.com /articles/Knud_Kristensen?mySession=4f48535b47561067ba6...   (244 words)

  
 The Chancellery of the Prime Minister   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Prime Minister Leszek Miller at the meeting with the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mr Andres Fogh Rasmussen
Prime Minister Leszek Miller met the special Representative for the UN Secretary General Mr.
Prime Minister Leszek Miller at the meeting with the President of the World Economic Forum, Mr.
www.kprm.gov.pl /english/5266.htm   (237 words)

  
 The Danish EU Presidency - eu2002.dk - Address by Prime Minister of Denmark Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the meeting of the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Address by Prime Minister of Denmark Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the meeting of the Chairmen of the Foreign Policy Committees
Denmark has long been advocating NATO enlargement as a contribution to European integration.
Denmark has, for the time being, opted out of the military aspects of the European Security and Defence Policy, and therefore plays no part in meeting the Helsinki Headline Goal for those aspects of EU policy.
www.eu2002.dk /news/news_read.asp?iInformationID=23425   (3183 words)

  
 CNN.com - Vandals attack Prime Minister's home - January 2, 2001
The summer cottage is a little-known private haven for the prime minister and his wife.
Rasmussen is not protected by police or security forces in Denmark and is normally able to travel alone.
It is by no means unusual to see members of Denmark's royal family walking the streets of Copenhagen, Aarhus or Fredensborg, where they have their homes.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/scandinavia/01/02/denmark.vandals   (354 words)

  
 Speech by Prime Minister at the Banquet hosted in his honour by the Prime Minister of Denmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Speech by Prime Minister at the Banquet hosted in his honour by the Prime Minister of Denmark
The 17th Century Danish trading posts in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal encouraged a tradition of Indological studies in Denmark, which is one of the oldest in Europe.
Prime Minister to visit India at an early date to carry forward this mutually beneficial dialogue at the highest level.
meaindia.nic.in /speech/2002/10/10spc02.htm   (444 words)

  
 Estrup, Jacob Bronnum Scavenius --  Encyclopædia Britannica
statesman and Conservative prime minister of Denmark from 1875 to 1894.
As minister of the interior from 1865, he made major improvements in the railways and in Esbjerg harbour.
Born in Ribe, Denmark, Riis emigrated to the United States in 1870, where he became a police reporter in New York City.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9033103?tocId=9033103   (715 words)

  
 Nautilus Digital Library: FOIA Document
During the NATO Summit in Paris in December 1957, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles thanked Danish Prime Minister H. Hansen for the "helpful arrangements" for U.S. forces in Greenland.
Only one month earlier, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Val Peterson had asked Hansen if Denmark wanted to be informed if the United States shold decide to deploy nuclear weapons in Greenland.
John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State, "Memorandum of Conversation with Prime Minister Hansen of Denmark," December 18, 1957.
www.nautilus.org /archives/library/security/foia/dulles121857.html   (257 words)

  
 Company News On Call   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Poul Schluter, former Prime Minister of Denmark, and Uffe Bundgaard-Jorgensen, Ph.D., Executive Director of the European Venture Capital Association, to Join Board WORCESTER, Mass., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Phytera, Inc. today announced the appointment of Mr.
He was a member of the Danish parliament from 1964 through 1994, and served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1982-1993.
He also serves as a director for several organizations, including Bayer Denmark A/S and Dunn & Bradstreet A/S. In addition, he is an advisor to the Republic National Bank of New York and Waste Management International.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/51759   (320 words)

  
 Indymedia UK - THE PRIME MINISTER OF DENMARK, ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN, IS GOING TO TURKEY TO
THE PRIME MINISTER OF DENMARK, ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN, IS GOING TO TURKEY TO The government under the premiership of Bulent Ecevit is one of the most bloodiest governments in the history of Turkey.
The MHP, one of the coalition members of this government, is a civilian fascist party which has murdered thousands of people in Turkey, just because of the opinions they hold, and it has placed its signature under dozens of massacres.
What the esteemed Rasmussen should do is not to shake the hands of these sadistic murderers, but to call on these murderers to stop their crimes against humanity.
www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2002/04/26778.html   (880 words)

  
 Buhl, Vilhelm --  Encyclopædia Britannica
twice prime minister of Denmark (1942, 1945), whose opposition to cooperation with Nazi Germany during his first term of office resulted in his dismissal by the Germans.
On the outbreak of war in 1939 Denmark, in common with the other Nordic countries, issued a declaration of neutrality.
The three 19th-century writers best known outside Denmark are N.F.S. Grundtvig, poet, churchman, hymn writer, and educational pioneer; Søren Kierkegaard, a profound religious and philosophical writer; and Hans Christian Andersen, author of some of the world's best-known fairy tales.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9017969?tocId=9017969   (660 words)

  
 Denmark Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Prime Minister) News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News
The plaintiffs are seeking to challenge the legitimacy of Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's decision to go to war against Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen added to the expectation last week by seeking parliamentary approval to give royal children...
Denmark Mariann Fischer Boel (EU Commissioner for Agriculture) News
www.einnews.com /denmark/newsfeed.php?nid=13666&offset=25   (573 words)

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