After the 2001 Danish parliamentary election,

Anders Fogh Rasmussen Anders Fogh Rasmussen (; born 26 January 1953) is a Danish politician who was the prime minister of Denmark from November 2001 to April 2009 and the Secretary General of NATO, secretary general of NATO from August 2009 to October 2014. He became ...

was able form a government coalition of his own Liberal Party Venstre and the Conservative People's Party. It was a minority government with the parliamentary support of the

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. The resulting

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is called the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I. Apart from the EU Presidency in 2002 during which the enlargement of the

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was decided, the main issues for the cabinet were the so-called ''tax freeze'', which ended the upward drift in municipal income tax rates, tax cuts, law and order, limiting the number of refugees and immigrants coming to Denmark as well as the war in

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and

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. In the

2005 Danish parliamentary election General elections were held in Denmark on 8 February 2005.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p525 Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's Venstre remained the largest party in the Folketing and his go ...

, Anders Fogh Rasmussen retained his parliamentary support, and was able to reform his cabinet as the

Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen II Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen retained his parliamentary support in the 2005 Danish parliamentary election, and was able to continue as head of his government. On 18 February 2005, he presented his updated cabinet, the Cabinet of Anders Fo ...

, with a few changes from the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I.

Cabinet changes

On 18 June 2002 Flemming Hansen replaced

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as Minister of Nordic Cooperation. In April 2004

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resigned and was replaced by

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. On 2 August 2004 there was a cabinet change: *

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was appointed to the new post of Minister of Family and Consumption. *

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was appointed to the new post of

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. *

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replaced Svend Erik Hovmand as Tax Minister. * Hans Christian Schmidt replaced

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. Mariann Fischer Boel became a member of the

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. *

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replaced

as Social Minister and Minister for Women's Rights. *

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replaced Hans Christian Schmidt as Minister for the Environment.

List of ministers and portfolios

Some periods in the table below end after 18 February 2005 because the minister also serves in Anders Fogh Rasmussens second cabinet.

References

Regeringen Anders Fogh Rasmussen I
– from the official website of the

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