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Frederiksen with then-President of the United States Donald Trump during a NATO meeting in London, United Kingdom, December 2019. Frederiksen gained international attention in August 2019 when U.S. President Donald Trump cancelled a state visit to Denmark following her refusal to sell Greenland, an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
The Prime Minister of Denmark is the head of government of the Kingdom of Denmark and leader of the Cabinet. The Prime Minister is formally appointed by the Monarch, who is head of state. The first four heads of government were titled premierminister (lit. ' prime minister '), between 1855 and 1920 the title was Konseilspræsident (lit.
The first council president was Adam Wilhelm Moltke, who came to power on 22 March 1848. Molte and his next two successors also held the title of premierminister, which translates as "prime minister". From 1855 onwards the prime minister was known simply as the "council president" (Konseilspræsident).
During his first term as President, Trump expressed a desire to buy the island from Denmark, and he lashed out at Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in 2019, after she called the discussion ...
Former U.S. President George W. Bush and former Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen hold a joint press conference outside Marienborg, July 2005. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and former Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen hold a joint press conference, April 2010.
Frederiksen, 46, is the leader of the Social Democratic Party and has been Denmark’s prime minister since 2019. She has steered Denmark through the global COVID-19 pandemic and a controversial 2020 decision to wipe out Denmark’s entire captive mink population to minimize the risk of the small mammals retransmitting the virus.
The new king of Denmark has changed the country’s royal coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland in an apparent rebuke of President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to take over the ...
The Ministry of the State of Denmark was founded 1 January 1914, though its origin can be found in a small secretariat created in 1848, under the Council of State (Danish: Statsrådet) to assist the new Council President (Danish: Konseilspræsident), the name used for the Prime Minister of Denmark from 1855 to 1918. [3]