Poul Oluf Nyrup Rasmussen is a retired Danish politician. Rasmussen was Prime Minister of Denmark from 25 January 1993 to 27 November 2001 and President of the Party of European Socialists (PES) from 2004 to 2011. He was the leader of the governing Social Democrats from 1992 to 2002. He was a member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009.
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.
Marianne Bruus Jelved is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Danish Social Liberal Party. She was elected into parliament in the 1994 Danish general election and had previously sat in parliament from 1987 to 1993. She is a former Minister of Economic Affairs,Nordic Cooperation,Culture and Ecclesiastical Affairs.
A European School is a type of international school emphasising a multilingual and multicultural pedagogical approach to the teaching of nursery,primary and secondary students,leading to the European Baccalaureate as their secondary leaving qualification. Each European School is set up,financed,and operated by the international organisation,the "European Schools",controlled jointly by the member states of the European Union and the European Commission. The schools prioritise,for enrolment purposes,the children of EU staff.
The Danish Social Liberal Party is a social-liberal political party in Denmark. The party was founded as a split from the Venstre Reform Party in 1905.
Margrete Helle Auken is a Danish politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2004. She is a member of the Socialistisk Folkeparti,part of the European Green Party. She was also formerly a Member of the Folketing.
Henrik Dam Kristensen is a Danish politician and the current speaker of the Danish parliament. He has been a member of the Danish parliament for the Social Democrats from 1990–2004 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.
Ulla Pedersen Tørnæs is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Liberal Party. She previously sat in parliament from 1994 to 2014,and served as member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2016. She served as Minister for Development Cooperation from 2016 to 2019,Minister of Higher Education and Science in 2016,Minister of Development Cooperation from 2005 to 2010 and Minister of Education from 2001 to 2005.
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.
The Liberal Alliance (LA) is a classical liberal and right-libertarian political party in Denmark.
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.
Jeppe Sebastian Kofod is a Danish politician of the Social Democratic Party who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark between 27 June 2019 to 15 December 2022.
Morten Østergaard is a Danish politician who served as Denmark's Minister for Economic and Interior Affairs from 2 September 2014 to 28 June 2015. Leader of the Danish Social Liberal Party from September 2014 to October 2020,he was a member of the Folketing from 2005 to 2021. He was furthermore Minister for Research,Innovation and Higher Education from 2011 to 2014 and for a short term in 2014 also Minister for Taxation.
Morten Løkkegaard is a Danish politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and the Danish Parliament intermittently since 2009. He has held his current position as a member of the European Parliament since 2016. He represents the Venstre political party and is affiliated with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
The 2014 European Parliament election in Denmark was an election held in Denmark on 25 May 2014 to decide who would represent Denmark in the European Parliament (EP) from 2014 to 2019. The Danish People's Party with 26.6% of the votes became the largest party for the first time in a nationwide Danish election.
Martin Lidegaard(born 12 December 1966 in Copenhagen) is a Danish politician who since 2022 has been political leader of the Social Liberal Party. He was Denmark's Foreign Minister in the government of Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt from 2014 to 2015,having previously been the Minister of Climate,Energy and Building from 2011 to 2014.
Rasmus Helveg Petersen is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Danish Social Liberal Party. He served as Minister for Development Cooperation from 21 November 2013 to 3 February 2014,and as Minister of Climate,Energy and Building from 3 February 2014 to 28 June 2015. He was elected into parliament at the 2019 Danish general election,having previously served from 2011 to 2015. He is the brother of Morten Helveg Petersen,who serves as a member of the European Parliament for the same party.
Karen Melchior is a Danish lawyer and politician,formerly of the Danish Social Liberal Party,who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
The 2019 European Parliament election in Denmark was held on 26 May 2019,and elected the Danish members to the European Parliament. The elections are part of the EU-wide elections for the parliament. Denmark has 13 seats in parliament,and which will be increased by one additional seat,once Brexit comes into force.
Benny Engelbrecht is a Danish politician who has been a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats since the 2007 general elections. He served as the Minister of Transport from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as Minister of Taxation from 2014 to 2015.
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