Anker Henrik Jørgensen was a Danish politician who served at various times as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Denmark. Between 1972 and 1982 he led five cabinets as prime minister. Jørgensen was president of the Nordic Council in 1986 and 1991.
Denmark uses the krone as its currency and does not use the euro, having negotiated the right to opt out from participation under the Maastricht Treaty of 1992. In 2000, the government held a referendum on introducing the euro, which was defeated with 53.2% voting no and 46.8% voting yes. The Danish krone is part of the ERM II mechanism, so its exchange rate is tied to within 2.25% of the euro.
The Liberal Alliance is a classical liberal and right-libertarian political party in Denmark. The party is a component of the centre-right bloc in Danish politics. The party's platform is based upon economic liberalism, promotion of tax cuts and reduction of welfare programmes, and a critical, oppositional stance towards European integration.
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 former Danish politician of the Social Democratic Party who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark between 27 June 2019 to 15 December 2022.
Inger Beinov Støjberg is a Danish politician, businesswoman and former reporter who served as a government minister in the Danish Parliament.
Søren Bo Søndergaard is a Danish teacher, metalworker and politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Red-Green Alliance. He was elected into parliament at the 2015 Danish general election, and previously served from 1994 to 2005. He was a Member of the European Parliament for the People's Movement against the EU and associated member of GUE/NGL from 2007 to 2014.
Morten Messerschmidt is a Danish politician and since 2022 leader of the Danish People's Party. He was an elected Member of the Folketing at the 2019 Danish general election having previously served from 2005 to 2009. At the 2014 European Parliament election, he was elected a Member of the European Parliament for Denmark with 465,758; the highest number of personal votes ever cast at a Danish election.
Lykke Friis is Prorector for Education at the University of Copenhagen and is a former Danish politician for the party Venstre and former Minister for Climate and Energy and equal rights. Prior to her political career she has once before been Prorector at the University of Copenhagen and held the position from 2006 - 2009. Prior to her appointment as government minister, she was not a member of Venstre.
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 first to be born after Margrethe II's accession to the throne, and the first to serve under Frederik X.
The Alternative is a green and pro-European political party in Denmark. The party was publicly launched on 27 November 2013 by former Minister of Culture Uffe Elbæk and Josephine Fock; Elbæk had been a parliamentarian for the Social Liberal Party. Elbæk was the leader of the party until February 2020, where he stepped down and was succeeded by Fock. Currently the party is led by Franciska Rosenkilde. It collaborates with DiEM25 at the European level.
DADES is one of the largest private property investment companies in Denmark. Shopping centres account for just over half of its portfolio, making it the second largest owner of shopping centres in the country. The company is headquartered in Kongens Lyngby in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen.
Nye Borgerlige is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Denmark. Formed by Pernille Vermund and Peter Seier Christensen in 2015, the party first entered the Danish Parliament, the Folketing, in 2019 with four seats and again in 2022 with six. After three defections in the first months after the election, by March 2023 the party's number of seats in the Folketing was reduced to three.
Karen Melchior is a Danish lawyer and politician, formerly of the Social Liberal Party, who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Kira Marie Peter-Hansen is a Danish politician. She is a Green Left Member of the European Parliament (MEP) elected in 2019 and 2024. In the 2024 election, she was the lead candidate for the party, which ended up with its best ever result at a national election, getting the most votes with 17.4%. She also received 178,438 personal votes, which was the highest of any candidate in that election. Peter-Hansen is the youngest ever MEP.
Nick Hækkerup is a Danish writer and politician of Social Democrats who has been serving as the Minister of Justice in the Frederiksen Cabinet from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as Minister of Defence, and Minister of Health.
The 2024 European Parliament election in Denmark was held on 9 June 2024. The elections were held as part of the wider 2024 European Parliament election, but did not take place in the Faroe Islands and Greenland, which are not part of the European Union.
Ninosca Victoria Risbjerg Velásquez is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Red–Green Alliance political party. She was elected at the 2019 Danish general election.
Jakob Engel-Schmidt is a Danish politician and Member of the Folketing from the Moderates. Since 15 December 2022 he has been minister for culture in the Frederiksen II Cabinet.
Michael Strabo is a Danish international financier, the founder and managing director of Strabo Investments Limited, a Malta incorporated capital markets and corporate finance focused firm. He has publicly advocated for companies to implement shareholder value enhancing strategies, actively pushing Danske Bank A/S to implement a share buyback program and arguing the Danske Bank Board of Directors ought to consider a sale of the company in order to unlock shareholder value.
