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5 unusual facts about Anders Fogh Rasmussen


Asle Toje

He has been a spokesman for a strong defense and close ties to U.S. foreign policy in the same tradition as Radosław Sikorski and Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Erik Scavenius

For example, on the 60th anniversary of the 29 August dissolution of government, prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen chastised his predecessor for his stance, saying that it was naive and morally unacceptable.

Ginnerup

Ginnerup is the place of birth of Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Prime Minister of Denmark and currently the 12th Secretary General of NATO.

NATO–Russia relations

In September 2009 speech NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen stated, that NATO and Russia are going to cooperate on such issues as the fight against terrorism and non-proliferation of WMDs.

William A. Eaton

In 2010 Eaton was selected by the Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to be the new Assistant Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for Executive Management.


2009 Strasbourg–Kehl summit

Pre-summit speculation about the next NATO Secretary-General focused on five candidates: Bulgaria's former Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, Canada's Defense Minister Peter MacKay, and Denmark's Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Institut français des relations internationales

Guests from previous years have included, between others, Nicolas Sarkozy, Dmitri Medvedev, Hu Jintao, Jalal Talabani, Hamid Karzai, Vladimir Poutine, Mikheil Saakashvili, Abdoulaye Wade, Vaclav Klaus, Pervez Musharraf, Abdullah Gül, Boris Tadic, Viktor Yanukovych, Paul Kagamé, Herman Van Rompuy, José Manuel Barroso, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, etc.

Tidehverv

Through its political engagement with two of its leading members, Søren Krarup (editor of the journal "Tidehverv" since 1984) and Krarup's cousin, parish priest Jesper Langballe, representing the Danish People's Party in the Danish parliament from 2001 to 2011, the movement was a driving force in Danish cultural politics during the terms of government of Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Lars Løkke Rasmussen.


see also

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen

The loss of power in the 2001 election to Anders Fogh Rasmussen's Venstre meant that the Social Democrats lost their position as the largest party in the Folketing, a position they had held without interruption since the Danish Folketing election in 1924.