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Danish Queen Appoints New Prime Minister

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe did her role as head of the nation Sunday, as her former prime minister stepped down and she appointed a new one. queen-margrethe

Anders Fogh Rasmussen had been the prime minister of the Scandinavian country since late 2001. Over the weekend, he accepted a new role as Secretary General of NATO.

With that, another Rasmussen – Lars Loekke, who is unrelated to the first one – stepped up from finance minister to Denmark’s prime minister.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen met with Queen Margrethe just before noon to hand in his resignation.

An hour later, the new prime minister met with the monarch to be appointed. He is now the country’s 40th premier.

This once head of the finance ministry now faces the country worst economic turmoil in 60 years.

“It’s a large task that’s facing me,” Lars Loekke Rasmussen told reporters outside the palace. “Denmark is in the middle of an international financial crisis; we have a small, open economy that is very exposed to large storms blowing abroad.”

As for the previous prime minister, he will succeed as the leader of the North American Trade Organization on the first of August.

April 5th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Denmark | Leave a comment

Busy Day for Crown Princess Mary

Saturday saw Denmark’s Crown Princess Mary at not one but two events in separate parts of the country. cp-mary1

The first engagement was at Legoland in Jutland. The second was at Aarhus where she opened an exhibition regarding 100 years of evening wear.

First to Legoland, where the Crown Princess met with children dressed in pirate costumes. The “pirates” unveiled a treasure chest filled with donations for the Christmas Seal House, a foundation Mary is a patron of. The money will go to fight childhood obesity in Denmark.

Mary even got a chance to have fun on the rides in Legoland.

Later on, the Princess traveled about two hours north to Aarhus, for the exhibition “Evening Wear 1909 – 2009.” No stranger to eveningwear herself, Mary was an obvious choice to cut the ribbon to the exhibit.

During the opening, she gave a speech about clothing through the years.

“Tuxedo is different. It depends on the event, and the identity of the person wearing it, and often also by the weather. The Tuxedo is the formal and the informal. The stylish and colored. There are large and small. And there’s Tuxedo for men and women.

“Through all times, there is shown no doubt that it is in women’s Tuxedo, we find the greatest creativity and variation. I’ve looked at some sly collection of festive costumes in the pictures and am happy to look at them in reality.”

Afterwards, Crown Princess Mary took a look at more of the eveningwear on display.

April 5th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Denmark | Leave a comment