Frederiksen Forms 4-Party Denmark Government After 60 Days, Facing Greenland Crisis
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Updated · Al Jazeera English · Jun 1
Frederiksen Forms 4-Party Denmark Government After 60 Days, Facing Greenland Crisis
11 articles · Updated · Al Jazeera English · Jun 1
Four parties — the Social Democrats, Moderates, Green Left and Social Liberals — agreed to back Mette Frederiksen, giving her a third term and ending more than two months of post-election deadlock.
The deal followed a fractured March 24 vote in which her party fell to 38 seats from 50 in the 179-seat parliament, while a failed Liberal bid to build a rival government cleared the way.
Greenland now looms as the new cabinet’s first foreign-policy test after Donald Trump threatened to annex the autonomous territory, a move Frederiksen said would signal “the end of NATO.”
Denmark also enters the new term under wider security strain in Europe, with defence spending already above 3% of GDP and military conscription expanded to women as the Ukraine war drags on.
Can left-wing economics and Europe's strictest immigration policy coexist in Denmark's new government?
After her party's worst election since 1903, how did Mette Frederiksen remain Denmark's prime minister?