Venstre,full name Venstre,Danmarks Liberale Parti,is a conservative-liberal,agrarian political party in Denmark. Founded as part of a peasants' movement against the landed aristocracy,today it espouses an economically liberal,pro-free-market ideology.
The Social Democrats is a social democratic political party in Denmark. A member of the Party of European Socialists (PES),the Social Democrats have 50 out of 179 members of the Danish parliament,Folketing,and three out of fourteen MEPs elected from Denmark.
Mogens Lykketoft is a Danish politician who served as Leader of the Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne) from 2002 to 2005.
Dan Jannik Jørgensen is a Danish politician of the Social Democrats who has been serving as Ministry for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy in the government of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen since 2022.
Henrik Dam Kristensen is a Danish politician and a former speaker of the Danish parliament. He has been a member of the Danish parliament for the Social Democrats from 1990 to 2004 and again from 2007,during which he served as Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries (1994–1996),Minister for Food (1996–2000),Minister for Social Affairs (2000–2001),Minister for Transport (2011–2013) and Minister for Employment (2014–2015). He served as President of the Nordic Council in 2011 and 2016.
Eva Kjer Hansen is a former Danish politician,who was a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. She held many ministerial positions,the last being as minister of Fisheries,Gender Equality and Nordic Cooperation from 2 May 2018 to 27 June 2019. Hansen was a member of parliament from the 1990 Danish general election to the 2022 Danish general election where she was not re-elected.
Troels Lund Poulsen is a Danish politician,who is the Deputy Prime Minister of Denmark and leader of Venstre. He also serves as Minister of Defence and Minister for Economic Affairs. He previously served as Minister for the Environment from 2007 to 2010,Minister for Taxation from 2010 to 2011,Minister of Education in 2011,Minister for Commerce,Business and Growth from 2015 to 2016 and Minister for Employment from 2016 to 2019. He has been a member of the Folketing since 2001,representing the Hedensted nomination district.
Karen Ellemann Kloch,formerly Karen Ellemann Karabian, is a Danish politician,who serves as the current Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers. She was previously a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. She is a former minister,having held the positions of Minister of Fisheries,Equality and Nordic Cooperation,Minister of the Environment and Minister of the Interior and Social Affairs.
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,Queen Margrethe II,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.
Mette Frederiksen is a Danish politician who has served as Prime Minister of Denmark since June 2019,and Leader of the Social Democrats since June 2015. The second woman to hold either office,she is also the youngest prime minister in Danish history.
The mink industry in Denmark produced 40 percent of the world's pelts. Denmark used to be the largest producer of mink skins in the world. Ranked third in Denmark's agricultural export items of animal origin,fur and mink skins have a yearly export value of about €500 million. Kopenhagen Fur,located in Copenhagen,is the world's largest fur auction house;annually,it sells approximately 14 million Danish mink skins produced by 2,000 Danish fur farmers,and 7 million mink skins produced in other countries. Mink produced in Denmark was considered to be the finest in the world and is ranked by grade,with the best being Saga Royal,followed by Saga,Quality 1,and Quality 2.
Morten Bødskov is a Danish Social Democratic politician,and member of the Folketing,currently serving as the Minister for Business since 2022. He previously served as Minister of Defence from February to December 2022 and Minister for Taxation under Frederiksen and Minister of Justice in the Government of Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
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.
Rasmus Prehn is a Danish politician who is currently serving as the Minister for Food,Agriculture and Fisheries. He previously served as Minister for Development Cooperation from 2019 to 2020. He has been a member of the Folketing since the 2005 Danish general election.
Peter Hummelgaard Thomsen is a Danish writer and politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. He has been the Minister of Employment since 2019. He was elected into parliament in the 2015 Danish general election.
Jakob Ellemann-Jensen is a Danish former politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Denmark and Minister of Defence under Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen from 2022 to 2023. He led the Venstre party from 2019 to 2023.
Flemming Møller Mortensen is a Danish politician of the Social Democrats who has been serving as a member of the Folketing since the 2007 elections. He is currently serving as Minister for Development and Nordic Cooperation in the government of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.
The Mink Commission formally the Commission of Inquiry into the Case of the Culling of Mink is a Danish investigative commission set up by a majority in the Folketing in 2020 to investigate The Mink Case;A case about the culling of all minks in Denmark during the COVID-19 pandemic. It began its work 23 April 2021. The commission consists of national judge Michael Kistrup,who is chairman,as well as law professor Helle Krunke from the University of Copenhagen and lawyer Ole Spiermann from the firm Bruun &Hjejle.
Events in the year 2022 in Denmark.
The 2020 Danish mink cull,commonly known as the Mink Case or the Mink Scandal,was the government-mandated slaughter of all roughly 17 million mink that were being raised on farms for their fur in Denmark. The cull started in September in response to the detection of Cluster 5,an outbreak of a novel variant of SARS-CoV-2,in the mink during the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark. The cluster led to concerns that the potential of spillover to humans could reduce the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. The cull was made nation-wide on 4 November 2020;however,two days later the government announced that the extension of the cull orders had been given without legal authority,causing a political scandal.
