The Folketing,also known as the Parliament of Denmark or the Danish Parliament in English,is the unicameral national legislature (parliament) of the Kingdom of Denmark—Denmark proper together with the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Established in 1849,until 1953 the Folketing was the lower house of a bicameral parliament,called the Rigsdag;the upper house was the Landsting. It meets in Christiansborg Palace,on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen.
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen was a Danish politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark in the Conservative-led Poul Schlüter Administration from 1982 to 1993. He was leader of the Danish Liberal Party Venstre from 1984 to 1998 and President of the European Liberals 1995–2000.
The Christian Democrats are a political party in Denmark. The party was founded in April 1970 as the Christian People's Party to oppose the liberalization of restrictions on pornography and the legalization of abortion. The party renamed itself to its current name in 2003. Originally,the party was not considered part of the European Christian-democratic tradition,and it was better known as a religious conservative party.
Bendt Bendtsen is a 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 from 1999 to 2008,and served as Minister of Economic and Business Affairs. As a MEP,he was part of the European People's Party.
Lars Barfoed is a Danish politician representing the Conservative People's Party and was the party's leader from 2011 to 7 August 2014. He was Justice Minister of Denmark from February 2010 to October 2011,and Deputy Prime Minister of Denmark from January to October 2011. He also served as Minister for Family and Consumer Affairs from 18 February 2005 to 14 December 2006.
Brian Arthur Mikkelsen is the CEO of the Danish Chamber of Commerce. He is a former Minister and member of the Conservative People's Party,and was a member of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget) from 21 September 1994 to 21 June 2018.
Gitte Seeberg is a Danish politician,lawyer,and current secretary general of the Danish branch of the WWF. She was a member of the Danish Folketinget parliament for the Conservative People's Party and New Alliance,and has previously been a Member of the European Parliament.
Niels Lolk Helveg Petersen was a Danish politician. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 2000,having previously held the role of Minister for Economic Affairs between 1988 and 1990. He was a Member of the Folketing for the Danish Social Liberal Party from 1966 to 1974,1977 to 1993,and again from 1994 to 2011.
Carina Christensen is a Danish politician representing the Conservative People's Party. She was the Minister of Family and Consumer Affairs in the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen II from 15 December 2006 to 23 November 2007. She replaced Lars Barfoed after he had been criticized for poor official food quality inspections. Such inspections fall under the portfolio of the Family and Consumption Ministry.
Abu Bashar is a Syrian-born imam of the mosque of The Islamic Society in Denmark in Odense,Denmark. He was involved in protests against the Jyllands-Posten cartoons of Muhammad and in the Vollsmose terrorist arrests.
General elections were held in Denmark on 15 September 2011 to elect the 179 members of the Folketing. Of those 179,175 members were elected in Denmark,two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland.
The politics of Denmark take place within the framework of a parliamentary representative democracy,a constitutional monarchy and a decentralised unitary state in which the monarch of Denmark,King Frederik X,is the head of state. Denmark is a nation state. Danish politics and governance are characterized by a common striving for broad consensus on important issues,within both the political community and society as a whole.
Denmark–Egypt relations are foreign relations between Denmark and Egypt. Denmark has an embassy in Cairo,and consulates in Suez,Port Said and Cairo. Egypt has an embassy in Copenhagen. Both countries are members of the Union for the Mediterranean.
Bosnia and Herzegovina–Denmark relations refers to the current and historical relations between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Denmark. Bosnia and Herzegovina has an embassy in Copenhagen,and Denmark has an embassy in Sarajevo. Diplomatic relations were established on 2 June 1992. In 2010,Danish Foreign Minister Lene Espersen announced that Denmark will close their embassy in Sarajevo in 2012.
Denmark–Kazakhstan relations refers to the current and historical relations between Denmark and Kazakhstan. Denmark recognized Kazakhstan on December 31,1991 and diplomatic relations were established on May 6,1992. Neither country has a resident ambassador. Kazakhstan's ambassador to the United Kingdom is accredited to Denmark. Since 2005,the honorary consul of Denmark is Per Karlsen,with the residency in Moscow. Denmark opened a trade mission in Almaty in 2005.
Events from the year 2011 in Denmark.
This article gives detailed results of the 2007 Danish parliamentary election. The Folketing has 179 members. Of these,135 are elected by proportional representation at district level,while another 40 are allocated based on votes aggregated to the regional level. An additional four members are elected to represent Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
Søren Pape Poulsen was a Danish politician who served as a member of the Folketing for the Danish Conservative Party and its leader from 2014 until his death. He was previously Mayor of Viborg Municipality from 2010 to 2014 and Justice Minister of Denmark from 2016 to 2019.
Trine Bramsen is a Danish politician of the Social Democrats,who has been a member of the Folketing since 2011. She served as minister of transport from February to December 2022 and minister of defence from 2019 until February 2022.
Simon Kollerup is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. He has been serving as Minister of Economic and Business Affairs in the Frederiksen Cabinet since 2019.
