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...setting image by plane-pooling. The prime ministers of the Benelux nations - Belgium's Guy Verhofstadt, the Netherlands's Jan Peter Balkenende and Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Juncker - will share rather than each take a private plane. Similarly, Swedish Prime Minister Frederik Reinfeldt will travel with Denmark's Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and their Finnish and Estonian counterparts Matti Vanhanen and Andrus Ansip will also share planes...
Then again, most of these things were true 14 years ago, and Denmark's welfare-state model seemed exhausted, beset by stagnant growth and double-digit unemployment. Some on the political right--including current Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who wrote a book in 1993 called From Social State to Minimal State--were convinced that taxes and spending had to be cut dramatically. But that was never in the cards politically, and Social Democrat Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (there are a lot of Rasmussens in Denmark), who became Prime Minister that year, crafted a compromise that kept the high taxes...
WHEELIE GOOD TIES Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, King Abdullah of Jordan and British PM Tony Blair have visited Camp David, but Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen got to pedal with the Prez in June. A buff Bush joked that he presumed his guest wouldn't "ride me into the ground...
...nominate Denmark's Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, for his handling of the cartoon affair. No amount of diplomatic pressure, economic boycotts or burned embassies would persuade him that limiting free press could have some noble outcome. Now, on issues of religious intolerance, we shall measure our leaders by the Rasmussen Resolve Scale. If they don't meet his standards, we will vote them away...
...Some time later, Jyllands-Posten was inundated with correspondence from outraged Danish Muslims. Several European newspapers republished the cartoons, and the discontent spread. Amidst death threats, the newspaper and Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen maintained a stance against apology-seeking Muslim radicals, despite being accused by the Turkish Foreign Ministry of “abusing Islam in the name of democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.” However, the United Nations (UN), the European Commission and the Council of Europe were all quick to withdraw their support...