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Lars Løkke Rasmussen

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Lars Løkke Rasmussen (born 15 May 1964) is a Danish politician serving as the 25th and current Prime Minister of Denmark since 2015, previously holding the position from 2009 to 2011, and as Leader of the centre-right liberal Venstre party since 2009. [1]

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AK-47

The AK-47, or AK as it is officially known, also known as the Kalashnikov, is a gas-operated, 7.62×39mm assault rifle, developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov.

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Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Anders Fogh Rasmussen (born 26 January 1953) is a Danish politician who was the 24th Prime Minister of Denmark from November 2001 to April 2009 and the 12th Secretary General of NATO from August 2009 to October 2014.

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Anders Fogh Rasmussen I Cabinet

After the 2001 Danish parliamentary election, Anders Fogh Rasmussen was able form a government coalition of his own Liberal Party Venstre and the Conservative People's Party.

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Anders Fogh Rasmussen II Cabinet

Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen retained his parliamentary support in the 2005 Danish parliamentary election, and was able to continue as head of his government.

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Anders Fogh Rasmussen III Cabinet

The third Cabinet of Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen was announced on 23 November 2007.

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Arne Rolighed

Arne Rolighed (born 2 June 1947) is a Danish former politician and the current president of the Danish Cancer Society until July 2010.

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Berlingske

Berlingske, previously known as Berlingske Tidende (Berling's Times), is a Danish national daily newspaper based in Copenhagen.

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BT (tabloid)

B.T. is a Danish tabloid newspaper which offers general news about various subjects such as sports, politics and current affairs.

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Candidate of Law

Candidate of Law (candidatus/candidata juris, cand.jur., cand.jur., jur.kand, oik.) is the degree awarded to jurists who have passed the law exam in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland after studying law for about 5–6 years.

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Caretaker government

A caretaker government is a government that rules on a temporary basis, due to the loss of election or a pending transition of power.

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Centre-right politics

Centre-right politics or center-right politics (American English), also referred to as moderate-right politics, are politics that lean to the right of the left–right political spectrum, but are closer to the centre than other right-wing variants.

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Claus Hjort Frederiksen

Claus Hjort Frederiksen (born 4 September 1947) is Danish Minister for Defence since November 2016.

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Conservative People's Party (Denmark)

The Conservative People's Party (Det Konservative Folkeparti, DKF), also known as the Conservatives (Konservative) is a conservative centre-right political party in Denmark.

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Counties of Denmark

The Counties of Denmark (Danmarks amter) were former subdivisions of metropolitan Denmark, used primarily for administrative regions, with each county having its own council with substantial powers.

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Dagbladet Information

Information, full name: Dagbladet Information, is a Danish newspaper published Monday through Saturday.

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Danish general election, 2001

General elections were held in Denmark on 20 November 2001.

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Danish general election, 2011

General elections were held in Denmark on 15 September 2011 to elect the 179 members of the Folketing.

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Danish general election, 2015

General elections were held in the Kingdom of Denmark on 18 June 2015 to elect the 179 members of the Folketing.

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Danish krone

The krone (plural: kroner; sign: kr.; code: DKK) is the official currency of Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, introduced on 1 January 1875.

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Danish People's Party

The Danish People's Party (DPP) (Dansk Folkeparti, DF) is a political party in Denmark which is generally described as right-wing populist by academics and far-right by international media.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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DR (broadcaster)

DR (Danmarks Radio), officially Danish Broadcasting Corporation in English, is a Danish public-service radio and television broadcasting company.

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Ekstra Bladet

Ekstra Bladet is a Danish tabloid newspaper focusing on sensationalist news and clickbait headlines.

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Finance Minister of Denmark

The Finance Minister of Denmark (Danish Finansministeren) is the head of the Ministry of Finance of Denmark, and a member of the Cabinet.

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Financial crisis of 2007–2008

The financial crisis of 2007–2008, also known as the global financial crisis and the 2008 financial crisis, is considered by many economists to have been the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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Folketing

The Folketing (Folketinget,; lit. the people's thing), also known as the Danish Parliament in English, is the unicameral national parliament (legislature) of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Frederiksborg County

Frederiksborg Amt (Frederiksborg County) is a former county (Danish: amt) in the north of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark.

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Global Green Growth Institute

The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is a treaty-based international organization headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

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Group of 77

The Group of 77 (G77) at the United Nations is a coalition of developing nations, designed to promote its members' collective economic interests and create an enhanced joint negotiating capacity in the United Nations.

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Gymnasium (Denmark)

The Danish Gymnasium offers a 3-year general academically-oriented upper secondary programme which builds on the 9th-10th form of the Folkeskole and leads to the upper secondary school exit examination (the studentereksamen).

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Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Helle Thorning-Schmidt (born 14 December 1966) is a retired Danish politician who served as the 26th Prime Minister of Denmark from 2011 to 2015, and Leader of the Social Democrats from 2005 to 2015.

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Horsens

Horsens is a city in east Jutland region of Denmark.

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Income tax

An income tax is a tax imposed on individuals or entities (taxpayers) that varies with respective income or profits (taxable income).

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Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

Jakob Gijsbert "Jaap" de Hoop Scheffer (born 3 April 1948) is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).

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Jakob Axel Nielsen

Jakob Axel Nielsen (born 12 April 1967 in Hadsund) is a Danish lawyer and politician representing the Conservative People's Party.

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Jyllands-Posten

Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten (English: The Morning Newspaper "The Jutland Post"), commonly shortened to JP, is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper.

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Karen Jespersen

Karen Moustgaard Jespersen (born 17 January 1947 in Copenhagen) is a Danish journalist and politician representing the party Venstre.

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Kristian Jensen

Kristian Jensen (born 21 May 1971) is a Danish politician who was Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark in 2015–2016.

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Lars Barfoed

Lars Barfoed (born 4 July 1957) is a Danish politician representing the Conservative People's Party and was the party´s leader from 2011 to August 7, 2014.

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Lars Løkke Rasmussen I Cabinet

The cabinet of Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, was announced on 5 April 2009 as Lars Løkke became prime minister after Anders Fogh Rasmussen was offered the post of Secretary General of NATO on 4 April 2009.

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Lars Løkke Rasmussen II Cabinet

The Second Cabinet of Lars Løkke Rasmussen was the Government of Denmark, in office between 28 June 2015 and 28 November 2016, where Lars Løkke Rasmussen third cabinet took over.

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Lars Løkke Rasmussen III Cabinet

The Third Cabinet of Lars Løkke Rasmussen took office on 28 November 2016, and succeeded the Second Cabinet of Lars Løkke Rasmussen.

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Leader of the Opposition

The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest party not in government in a Westminster System of parliamentary government.

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Lene Espersen

Lene Espersen (born 26 September 1965) is a former Danish politician and the current CEO at the Danish Association of Architectural Firms.

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Liberal Alliance (Denmark)

The Liberal Alliance (Liberal Alliance) is a liberal and libertarian political party in Denmark.

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Liberalism

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty and equality.

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List of Interior Ministers of Denmark

This is a list of Interior Ministers of Denmark since the establishment of the Danish Ministry of the Interior in 1848.

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List of Prime Ministers of Denmark

The Prime Minister of Denmark is the head of government of Denmark and leader of the Cabinet; since 1918 they have held the title of "Minister of State".

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Maiden and married names

When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of his or her spouse, that name replaces the person's birth surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name (birth name is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted by a person upon marriage.

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Margrethe II of Denmark

Margrethe II (Margrethe 2.,; Margreta 2.; Margrethe II; full name: Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid; born 16 April 1940) is the Queen of Denmark; as well as the supreme authority of the Church of Denmark and Commander-in-Chief of the Danish Defence.

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Mette Frederiksen

Mette Frederiksen (born 19 November 1977) is a Danish Social Democrat politician.

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Minister of the Interior and Health (Denmark)

The Minister of the Interior and Health of Denmark (Indenrigs- og sundhedsminister) was a member of the Danish cabinet and the head of the Ministry of the Interior and Health.

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Ministry of Health (Denmark)

The Danish Ministry of Health is responsible for healthcare policy in Denmark.

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Ministry of Interior and Health (Denmark)

The Ministry of the Interior and Health is a former Danish ministry that has existed twice in the 21st century by combination of existing ministries.

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Ministry of Social Affairs (Denmark)

The Danish Ministry of Social Affairs was re-created in 2010 as a split of the Social Welfare ministry created after the 2007 Folketing elections.

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Mujahideen

Mujahideen (مجاهدين) is the plural form of mujahid (مجاهد), the term for one engaged in Jihad (literally, "holy war").

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord; OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries.

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Order of the Crown (Belgium)

The Order of the Crown (Ordre de la Couronne, Kroonorde) is a national order of the Kingdom of Belgium.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

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Politiken

Politiken is a leading Danish daily broadsheet newspaper, published by JP/Politikens Hus in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Poul Nyrup Rasmussen

Poul Oluf Nyrup Rasmussen (informally Poul Nyrup, born 15 June 1943), 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.

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Prime Minister of Denmark

The Prime Minister of Denmark (Danmarks statsminister; literally "Minister of the State") is the head of government in the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Private hospital

A private hospital is a hospital owned by a for-profit company or a non-profit organization and privately funded through payment for medical services by patients themselves, by insurers, Governments through national health insurance programs, or by foreign embassies.

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Regions of Denmark

The Regions of Denmark were created as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform.

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Right-wing politics

Right-wing politics hold that certain social orders and hierarchies are inevitable, natural, normal or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics or tradition.

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Sólrun Løkke Rasmussen

Sólrun Jákupsdóttir Løkke Rasmussen (born 22 November 1968) is the wife of the Prime Minister of Denmark, Lars Løkke Rasmussen.

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Secretary General of NATO

The Secretary General of NATO (Secrétaire général de l'OTAN) is an international diplomat who serves as the chief civil servant of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

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Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change was a British government cabinet position from 2008 to 2016.

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Social Democrats (Denmark)

The Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne), officially Social Democracy (Socialdemokratiet), is a social-democratic political party in Denmark.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Soviet–Afghan War

The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989.

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Statistics Denmark

Statistics Denmark (Danmarks Statistik) is a Danish governmental organization under the Ministry for Economic and Interior Affairs.

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Tax rate

In a tax system, the tax rate is the ratio (usually expressed as a percentage) at which a business or person is taxed.

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Thor Pedersen

Thor Pedersen (born 14 June 1945) is a Danish politician representing the Liberal party, Venstre.

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TV 2 (Denmark)

TV 2 is a government-owned subscription television station in Denmark based in Odense, Funen.

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Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

Uffe Ellemann-Jensen (informal: (born 1 November 1941) was Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark in the Conservative led Poul Schlüter Administration 1982–1993. He was leader of the Danish Liberal Party, Venstre 1984–1998 and President of the European Liberals 1995–2000. Since 1998, Ellemann-Jensen has been Chairman of Baltic Development Forum, a non-profit networking organisation dedicated to the business development of the Baltic Sea region. He is non-executive director of various boards of international companies.

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University of Copenhagen

The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) (Københavns Universitet) is the oldest university and research institution in Denmark.

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Vejle

Vejle is a town in Denmark, in the southeast of the Jutland Peninsula at the head of Vejle Fjord, where the Vejle River and Grejs River and their valleys converge.

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Venstre (Denmark)

VenstreThe party name is officially not translated into any other language, but is in English often referred to as the Liberal Party.

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Venstres Ungdom

Venstres Ungdom (literally: Youth of the Left) is the youth wing of the Danish Liberal Party Venstre.

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War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

The War in Afghanistan (or the U.S. War in Afghanistan; code named Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan (2001–2014) and Operation Freedom's Sentinel (2015–present)) followed the United States invasion of Afghanistan of October 7, 2001.

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2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference

The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 7 and 18 December.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Løkke_Rasmussen

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