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Who's Running Denmark?
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EDITORIAL
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3 / 2003 |
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Iris Brooks, based in Upper Nyack, New York, has written about
music festivals on five continents. Her book New Music Across
America, celebrating contemporary American music festivals,
was published by the California Institute of the Arts. |
To the Editor:
As a member of your advisory board I receive a copy of your excellent periodical every month, for which I am duly grateful. However, being a member of the said board it is my duty to voice the strongest possible protest against the article by Jack Tierney ["The Right Becomes a Major Factor," December 2002, p. 18].
Mr. Tierney writes: "The nine-year reign of the Social Democrats in Denmark ended last November with the victory of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen's Venstre (Liberal) Party, an anti-immigration and anti-EU party now in coalition with the conservatives..."
The truth is that the nine-year reign of the Social Democrats in Denmark ended last November with the victory of Anders Fogh Rasmussen's Venstre (Liberal) Party. Poul Nyrup Rasmussen was prime minister in the Social Democratic government that was ousted. The two gentlemen have the same family name--sorry about that!
The party now ruling (Venstre) has leanings toward liberalism in the classical "Adam Smithian" sense of the word, although in practice its domestic politics are almost indistinguishable from those of the Social Democrats. The reason for this is that the mentality of Danish voters is firmly rooted in the concept of the welfare state, the Social Democrats having been in power for a very large part of the last century.
Furthermore, the Venstre Party is certainly not "anti-immigration and anti-EU" and to my knowledge never has been. Incidentally, our prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
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