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Denmark (European Parliament Constituency)
Denmark is a European Parliament constituency for the elections to the European Parliament covering the Member state of the European Union Denmark, but not other parts of the Danish Realm such as the Faroe Islands or Greenland, which are not a part of the EU. It is currently represented by fifteen Member of the European Parliament, Members of the European Parliament. Denmark uses the D'Hondt method of proportional representation. Electoral alliance, Electoral alliances between two or more parties are allowed. Members of the European Parliament Elections 1979 The 1979 European Parliament election, 1979 European election was the first direct election to the European Parliament to be held and hence the first time Denmark had voted. 1984 The 1984 European Parliament election, 1989 European election was the second election to the European Parliament and the second for Denmark. 1989 The 1989 European Parliament election, 1989 European election was the third election to the Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenland (European Parliament Constituency)
Greenland was a European Parliament constituency for elections in the European Union covering the territory of Greenland. It seceded from the European Community in 1985. It was represented by one Member of the European Parliament. Members of the European Parliament Elections 1979 The 1979 European Parliament election, 1979 European election was the first election to the European Parliament. The vote was held on 9 June 1979. The eligible electorate was 29,188. Finn Lynge of Forward (Greenland), Siumut was elected. 1984 The 1984 European Parliament election, 1984 European election was the second election to the European Parliament and the second for Greenland. The vote was held on 14 June 1984, and the eligible electorate was 34,653. Finn Lynge was re-elected. When Greenland seceded from the European Community on 1 January 1985 Lynge's seat was transferred to the Danish Socialist People's Party (Denmark), Socialist People's Party.Marquard, Arne (ed.) (1984). ''Folketingsårb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finn Lynge
Finn Lynge (22 April 1933 – 4 April 2014) was a Greenlandic politician, Indigenous rights activist, former Catholic priest and civil servant who from 1979 until 1984 was the sole Member of the European Parliament for Greenland. Early life and career Lynge was born in 1933 and grew up in Nuuk. As a teenager he moved to Denmark with his parents and graduated from secondary school in 1951. Lynge studied Danish and French at the University of Copenhagen before serving in the military. He trained to be a Catholic priest before serving in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, from 1963 to 1964. He later served as a priest in Denmark and in Greenland. He was the first native Greenlander Catholic priest since the Protestant Reformation. He subsequently resigned as a priest to marry. Following that Lynge spent several years working for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and for the Greenlandic Government. Indigenous activism and political career Lynge served as a director for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Movement
The June Movement () was a Danish left Eurosceptic political organisation founded 23 August 1992. It took its name from the referendum on the Maastricht Treaty that took place in Denmark in June of that year. The movement was a member of the European political party EUDemocrats - Alliance for a Europe of Democracies. The June Movement acknowledged Denmark's membership of the European Union, but opposed the process of tighter European integration including the Lisbon Treaty, and in general the movement wanted the EU to deal with only cross-border issues such as environmental and trade policies. The movement participated in elections for the European Parliament, but neither in local elections nor in elections for the Parliament of Denmark. In 2009, the movement lost its representation in the European Parliament and disbanded on 5 September 2009. History The June Movement was founded at a conference at Christiansborg on 23 August 1992. Its immediate predecessors were Danmark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens-Peter Bonde
Jens-Peter Rossen Bonde (27 March 1948 – 4 April 2021) was a Danish politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the June Movement. He resigned as an MEP in May 2008. Bonde was elected to the European Parliament in the first election in 1979 with the People's Movement against the EU. He was re-elected 6 times consecutively. In 1992 he co-founded the June Movement which he chaired until his retirement in May 2008. Jens-Peter Bonde emerged from the Danish Left of the 1970s, however he was on the centre-left for much of his life. In November 2005 he was the inspiration behind the setting up of a new Party at a European level, EUDemocrats. He was its president from 2005 to 2009. Bonde wrote over 60 books on the EU, including editions of EU treaties with additional commentary. Family Jens-Peter Bonde is the son of Nina Bonde and Nis Bonde. He was married to Lisbeth Kirk, editor-in-chief of the independent online newspaper '' EUobserver''. Jens-Peter h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Else Hammerich
Else Hammerich (7 September 1936 – 20 March 2021) was a Danish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1989. A member of the protest movement People's Movement against the EU, she was elected to the European Parliament for this association. Early and personal life Born in Frederiksberg, Hammerich was the seventh of eight children, a daughter of naval officer and Valborg Rump. The family was involved in the resistance movement during World War II; one of her brothers was killed by the Gestapo. She attended school primarily in Gentofte, but spent a year in a Catholic school in Tokyo while her parents were overseas providing humanitarian aid during the Korean War The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea; ROK) and their allies. North Korea was s .... She was married to Per Beth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Movement Against The EU
The People's Movement against the EU () is a far-left political association in Denmark against the European Union. It was founded in 1972 as a cross-party campaign platform for a 'no' vote in Denmark's referendum on EEC membership. The People's Movement was represented in the European Parliament from 1979 until 2019, when it lost its single seat in the European Parliament election. The movement has approximately 3,500 personal members, as well as collective members such as political parties, NGOs and trade unions (mostly local branches). The individual members are organised in about 100 local branches. Policies The primary objective of the movement is to withdraw the country from the EU and rejoin the European Free Trade Association, unlike some other Eurosceptic organisations which hope to be able to reform or downgrade the EU. According to the movement, it supports democracy, sustainable development and increased cooperation in organisations like the United Nations, Organiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist People's Party (Denmark)
The Green Left, since March 2022 the English name for Socialistisk Folkeparti (, , abbr. SF), is a democratic socialist political party in Denmark. SF was founded on 15 February 1959 by Aksel Larsen, a former leader of the Communist Party of Denmark (DKP), who was removed for criticizing the Soviet intervention in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Larsen aimed to create a third way between Denmark's U.S.-oriented social democracy and Soviet-oriented communism, combining democracy with socialism. SF entered the Folketing in the 1960 Danish general election, while the DKP lost its seats. SF became involved in peace, anti-nuclear, and grassroots movements, advocating for independence from the Soviet Union. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, SF experienced fluctuating electoral success, gaining significant influence in the peace and environmental movements. Under Gert Petersen's leadership from 1974, SF broadened its appeal, focusing on environmental and gender politics. The part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodil Boserup
Bodil Boserup (1921–1995) was a Danish socialist politician. She was a member of the Socialist People's Party and served at both the Danish Parliament and the European Parliament. Biography She was born in Thisted Thisted is a town in the municipality of Thisted in the North Denmark Region of Denmark. It has a population of 13,505 (1 January 2025)Communist and Allies Gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kjeld Olesen
Kjeld Olesen (8 July 1932 – 25 July 2024) was a Danish Social Democratic politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark from 1979 to 1982. Career In 1955 Olesen was part of the CIA team who secretly listened in to the leftist politicians Ragnhild Andersen and Alfred Jensen. He also worked in a private intelligence organisation called Arbejdernes Informations Central (Danish: ''Information Centre of the Labour Movement'') financed by the labour movement. Its employers were members of the Social Democratic Party. Later, Olesen became a member of Parliament (1966–1987) and served as deputy chairman of the Social Democratic Party in the 1970s. He served in several cabinet positions, most notably as foreign minister and defence minister. Following his exit from politics, he resumed his old profession as a sailor. Personal life and death Kjeld Støttrup Olesen was born 8 July 1932 in Copenhagen to Anker Olesen (1902–1955) and Severa Madsen (1908–1973) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mette Groes
Mette Groes (1937–2014) was a Danish politician, social worker and lecturer at Aalborg University. Representing the Social Democrats, she was a temporary member of the Folketing (1977– 1987) and a member of the European Parliament (1979–1980). Committed to equal rights for men and women, her many publications include the book ''Hustruvold'' (Violence against Wives, 2001). Biography Born in the Copenhagen district of Frederiksberg on 9 June 1937, Mette Groes was the daughter of FDB director Ebbe Groes and his wife, Lis née Tørsleff, former Minister of Trade and Industry. She was the eldest of the family's nine children. A keen reader from an early age, after graduating from high school she first studied libranianship but quickly turned to social work. Career Groes first was first employed in Copenhagen as a social worker for the Modrehjælpen (mothers' help) organization and shortly afterwards at Bispebjerg Hospital where she moved into leadership. For the benefit of pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democrats (Denmark)
The Social Democrats ( , , S) is a Social democracy, social democratic list of political parties in Denmark, political party in Denmark. A member of the Party of European Socialists, the Social Democrats have 50 out of 179 members of the Danish parliament (following the 2022 Danish general election, latest Danish general election held in 2022), Folketing, and three out of fourteen Member of the European Parliament, MEPs elected from Denmark. Founded by Louis Pio in 1871, the party first entered the Folketing in the 1884 Danish Folketing election. By the early 20th century, it had become the party with the largest representation in the Folketing, a distinction it would hold for 77 years. It first formed a government after the 1924 Danish Folketing election under Thorvald Stauning, the longest-serving List of Prime Ministers of Denmark, Danish Prime Minister of the 20th century. During Stauning's government which lasted until the 1926 Danish Folketing election, the Social Democrats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Gredal
Eva Wilhelmson Gredal (19 February 1927 – 2 August 1995) was a Danish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for Denmark from 1979 to 1989. On a national level, she served as Minister of Social Affairs from 1971 to 1973 and again from 1975 to 1978. Biography Gredal was born in Hvorup. Her father, Albert, was a pastor and her mother, Mary, worked as a seamstress. She graduated from secondary school in 1947, and after marrying Otto in 1949, returned to school to take up social work, and graduated in 1954. Gredal was chairperson of the Danish Social Advisory Association from 1959 to 1967, and after that she served as Vice President of the National Association for Mental Hygiene, serving in that role until 1971. It was during this time that she became involved in politics, as she felt that was the way for social workers to gain more national influence. Gredal was first elected to the Folketing in 1971 as a member of the Social Democrats, and served in that rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
