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Cabinet Of Anders Fogh Rasmussen III
The third Cabinet of Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen was announced on 23 November 2007. Changes from the Anders Fogh Rasmussen II Cabinet, Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen II * Former Minister of Finances Thor Pedersen did instead of his old post take the seat as Speaker of Parliament, formerly held by Christian Mejdahl. * Minister of Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs Bertel Haarder is retained as Minister of Education, but changes his second portfolio to being Minister of Nordic Cooperation. * Social Minister and Minister of Equal Rights Karen Jespersen becomes minister of a new Welfare Ministry, merging the former Ministry of Interior Affairs, Ministry of Family and Consumer Affairs and Social Ministry into one. * Former Interior and Health Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen is appointed Minister of Finances. * Former Minister of Environmental Affairs and Nordic Cooperation Connie Hedegaard is appointed Minister of Climate and Energy, thus splitting the former Ministr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Anders Fogh Rasmussen (; born 26 January 1953) is a Danish politician who was the 24th Prime Minister of Denmark from November 2001 to April 2009 and the 12th Secretary General of NATO from August 2009 to October 2014. He became CEO of political consultancy Rasmussen Global and founded the Alliance of Democracies Foundation. He serves as a Senior Adviser to Citigroup. He also served as a senior advisor at The Boston Consulting Group. Rasmussen was first elected to the Folketing in 1978 and served in various ministerial positions, including Minister of Tax (1987–1992) and Minister of Economic Affairs (1990–1992). In his early career, Rasmussen was a strident critic of the welfare state, writing the classical liberal book ''From Social State to Minimal State'' in 1993. However, his views moved towards the political centre through the 1990s. He was elected the leader of the conservative-liberal party Venstre in 1998 and headed a centre-right coalition with the Conservativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birthe Rønn Hornbech
Birthe Johanne Sparrevohn Rønn Hornbech (born 18 October 1943 in Copenhagen) is a Danish politician, member of the Folketing (the national parliament of Denmark) for Venstre, the liberal party, elected in the constituency of Køge, and former Minister for Refugees, Immigrants and Integration and for Ecclesiastical Affairs. Hornbech graduated as ''cand.jur.'' (Master of Laws) from the University of Copenhagen in 1971. After that, she worked as a clerk at the Police and in 1981 she was promoted to deputy police commissioner. She was first elected to the Folketing in 1984. Hornbech is known for her pronounced views and has on numerous occasions disagreed with the leadership of her own party; for instance, she voted against an increase of public surveillance. Following the 2007 election, she became minister, although having previously denied offers of such appointment on more than one occasion. In 2010, Hornbech came under public scrutiny as the Minister of Integration, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claus Hjort Frederiksen
Claus Hjort Frederiksen (born 4 September 1947) is a Danish politician of the Venstre party, who served as the Danish Minister for Defence from 2016 to 2019, and as Minister for Finance from 2015 to 2016, having previously served in that position from 2009 to 2011, as member of the first Løkke Rasmussen Cabinet. From 2001 to 2009, he was Minister of Employment in the first, second, and third cabinets of Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He is a member of the liberal party Venstre. He was a member of the Danish Parliament Folketinget since 2005 until 2022. Hjort was one of the main strategist behind the strategy shift in Venstre following the defeat in the 1998 general election known as the so-called Hjort doctine (Danish: ''Hjort-doktrinen''). Early life He graduated in Law from University of Copenhagen. Political career Frederiksen served as party secretary of ''Venstre'' 1985–2001, and as such he served as Fogh Rasmussen's closest advisor in creating the political program that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister For Employment (Denmark)
The Minister for Employment ( da, Beskæftigelsesminister) is a Danish minister office. The minister is the labour minister of Denmark and is the political head of the Ministry of Employment of Denmark. The office was introduced with the Scavenius Cabinet The Scavenius Cabinet was the government of Denmark from 9 November 1942 to 5 May 1945. It replaced the Buhl I Cabinet, which fell due to the Telegram Crisis in November 1942, when the Germans demanded changes to the Danish government. The Germans ... on 9 November 1942. It was called Minister for Labour ( da, Arbejdsminister) until 2001. List of ministers Source: References External links * Lists of government ministers of Denmark Government ministerial offices of Denmark {{Denmark-poli-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister For Finance (Denmark)
The Finance Minister of Denmark (Danish ''Finansministeren'') is the head of the Ministry of Finance of Denmark,and a member of the Cabinet. As head of the ministry, the minister has responsibility for the ministry's tasks of administering the state finances via the fiscal policy, and making economic predictions and recommendations. The current Finance Minister is Nicolai Wammen, appointed by Mette Frederiksen on 27 June 2019. See also *List of Minister for Finance (Denmark) This is a list of Finance Ministers of Denmark since 1848. Denmark's first unified Finance Ministry A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation ... References A resumé of the book ''At forme og tjene en ny tid - Finansministeriet 1848-1998''- From the Finance Ministry of Denmark (In Danish). External linksThe Finance Ministry of Denmark Government ministerial offices of Denmark {{Denmark-po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Per Stig Møller
Per Stig Møller (, informal: Per Stig; born 27 August 1942 in Frederiksberg) is a Danish politician. He was a member of the Folketing (Danish national parliament) for the Conservative People's Party from 1984 until 2015, and was Minister for the Environment from 18 December 1990 to 24 January 1993 as part of the Cabinet of Poul Schlüter IV and Foreign Minister from 27 November 2001 to 23 February 2010 as part of the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I, II and III, and the first Cabinet of Lars Løkke Rasmussen. From 23 February 2010 to 3 October 2011 he was Minister for Culture. Per Stig Møller is the son of the former Finance Minister Poul Møller and journalist Lis Møller, who were both Members of Parliament. Education Per Stig Møller completed his master's degree in comparative literature at the University of Copenhagen in 1967, and was awarded a ''dr.phil.'' (higher doctorate) in 1973 for his thesis '' Malte-Bruns litterære kritik og dens plads i transformati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of Foreign Affairs (Denmark)
The Minister for Foreign Affairs ( da, Udenrigsminister, fo, Uttanríkisráðharra, kl, Nunanut Allanut Ministeri) is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. The officeholder is in charge of Danish (Denmark proper,), " metropolitan Denmark",Administrative divisions – Denmark . Access date: 14 April 2012 or simply Denmark. In this article, usage of "Denmark" excludes Greenland and the Faroe Islands., name="proper" the |
Lene Espersen
Lene Espersen (born 26 September 1965) is a former Danish politician, a former leader of Conservative People's Party and a former Minister of Justice. She is the current CEO at the Danish Association of Architectural Firms. From 1 July 2016 to June 30, 2020, she served as chairman of the board of Aalborg University. In 2006, Espersen was stripped of her parliamentary immunity after crashing into a woman on a scooter. She was subsequently banned from driving and fined €150. Early life Born to a fisherman father and a book-keeper mother, she grew up with her younger sister in Hirtshals in the north of Jutland, on Denmark’s mainland. She attended Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific in Canada. She later became the first in her family to graduate from university. Political career Espersen was the first person in her family to join a political party. A member of the Folketinget from 1994, she served as Minister of Justice from 27 November 2001 to 10 September 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bendt Bendtsen
Bendt Bendtsen (born 25 March 1954) is a Denmark, Danish politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 until 2019. He was the leader of the Conservative People's Party (Denmark), Conservative People's Party from 1999 to 2008, and served as Minister of Economic and Business Affairs (Denmark), Minister of Economic and Business Affairs. As a MEP, he was part of the European People's Party. Before being elected, Bendtsen worked as a member of Odense's police force; he became a member of the Odense City Council in 1989, and he was Vice-Chairman of the Odense Criminal Police Association from 1989 to 1992. Political career Member of the Folketing Bendtsen was a temporary member of the Folketing for the Conservative Party, representing Funen County constituency, from 5 April to 24 April 1994, and he was subsequently elected as a Conservative member of the Folketing from Funen County constituency in the 1994 Danish parliamentary election, parliamentary electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deputy Prime Minister (Denmark)
Deputy Prime Minister of Denmark (, ) is an office sometimes held by a minister in the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark. In the absence of the Prime Minister of Denmark, the Deputy Prime Minister takes over their functions, such as chairing the Cabinet of Denmark and participating in the Council of State. The title used to be an informal description sometimes used, especially by the press, for the minister who is second in the order of precedence. Traditionally, the minister of foreign affairs holds the second rank. It is only when the order of precedence deviates from this tradition, that number two is referred to as ''vicestatsminister''. This happens in the unusual case when the leader of the second-largest coalition party is not minister of foreign affairs. In some cases the leader of the third-largest coalition party, who is as a matter of course third in precedence, has been called 2nd deputy prime minister (). This tradition goes back at least to 1957. The position wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of Economic And Business Affairs (Denmark)
The Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs is a ministry in the Danish government. The Ministry was created in 2001 as a merger between the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Since its creation, the Minister of Economic and Business Affairs has usually been the Deputy Prime Minister, and the leader of the second largest party in the government coalition. Since 2 September 2014 Morten Østergaard of the Danish Social Liberal Party The Danish Social Liberal Party ( da, Radikale Venstre, , Radical Left) is a social-liberal political party in Denmark. The party was founded as a split from the Venstre Reform Party in 1905. Historically, the centrist party has played a cent ... is minister. {{authority control Economic and Business Affairs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister Of Denmark
The prime minister of Denmark ( da, Danmarks statsminister, fo, Forsætisráðharri, kl, Ministeriuneq) is the head of government in the Kingdom of Denmark comprising the three constituent countries: Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Before the creation of the modern office, the kingdom did not initially have a head of government separate from its head of state, namely the monarch, in whom the executive authority was vested. The Constitution of 1849 established a constitutional monarchy by limiting the powers of the monarch and creating the office of . The inaugural holder of the office was Adam Wilhelm Moltke. The prime minister presides over a cabinet that is formally appointed by the monarch. In practice, the appointment of the prime minister is determined by his or her support in the Folketing (the National Parliament). Since the beginning of the 20th century, no single party has held a majority in the Folketing so the prime minister must head a coalition of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
