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| | Politics of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | However, the 1953 Constitution established a unicameral Folketing of not more than 179 members, of whom two are elected from the Faroe Islands and two from Greenland. | | | However, she must consult with parliamentary leaders to determine the public's will, since the cabinet may be dismissed by a vote of no confidence in the Folketing, the Danish parliament. | | | The current monarch, Queen Margaret II, has largely ceremonial functions; perhaps her most significant formal power lies in her right to appoint the prime minister (Statsminister) and the cabinet of Denmark, who are responsible for administration of the government. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Denmark
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| | Denmark.dk: Official website - Denmark - The Anders Fogh Rasmussen Government |
| | She was elected to the Folketing in 1998. | | | Claus Hjort Frederiksen (Liberal), born 4 September 1947, graduated as a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Copenhagen in 1972. | | | He was elected to the Folketing in 1984 and was Minister for the Environment 1990-1993. |
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http://www.denmark.dk/portal/page?_pageid=374,520573&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
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| | Parliamentary Elections and Election Administration in Denmark |
| | The body of law governing elections to the Folketing comprise the Constitution, the Election Act, and regulations issued by the Minister for the Interior in accordance with this Act. | | | According to the Constitution, the Folketing itself determines the validity of the election of its members. | | | The Danish Constitution states that the members of the Folketing shall be elected by universal suffrage, and by direct and secret ballot. |
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http://www.folketinget.dk/BAGGRUND/00000048/00232623.htm
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| | The Prime Minister's Office - The Constitutional Act of Denmark |
| | No member of the Folketing shall be elected a member of the High Court of the Realm, nor shall a member of the Folketing act as a member of the High Court of the Realm. | | | The President shall convene a meeting of the Folketing upon a request being made in writing by at least two-fifths of the members of the Folketing or the Prime Minister, stating the Order of the Day. | | | Where, in a particular instance, some of the members of the highest court of justice in the Realm are prevented from taking part in the trial of a case, an equal number of the members of the High Court of the Realm last elected by the Folketing shall retire from their seats. |
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http://www.stm.dk/Index/dokumenter.asp?o=71&n=1&d=1108&s=2
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| | Dorte Dinesen |
| | The Folketing has 179 members of which 2 are elected in Greenland and 2 in the Faroe Isles. | | | The municipalities and the counties have constitutional rights of autonomy within limits imposed by the Folketing. | | | The Folketing passes the superior laws, including the rules applying to day care offers to children. |
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http://www.haderslevsem.dk/sokrates/Dinesen.htm
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| | Denmark - Official Denmark - Constitution |
| | Elections to the Folketing take place at least every four years, but the Prime Minister has the right to dissolve the Folketing and thus force an election. | | | Local authority independence is established in section 82 of the Constitution, and many of the administrative powers are delegated to the 14 counties and the 275 local authorities into which Denmark is divided (2002). | | | Immigrants without Danish nationality do not have the right to vote for the Folketing, but since 1989 they have been able to vote and had the right of election in local elections. |
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http://www.um.dk/Publikationer/UM/English/Denmark/kap1/1-9.asp
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| | The Danish EU Presidency - eu2002.dk - The Parliament |
| | Men who wished to run for the Folketing had to be at least 30 years of age, be masters of their own house and have no criminal record. | | | The rules governing the activities of the Ombudsman are laid down in the Ombudsman Act. | | | In order to hold the right to vote, a man had to be at least 30 years of age. |
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http://www.eu2002.dk/eu2002/denmark?MenuElementID=6142
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| | Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the Danish Folketing |
| | In the 2005 Folketing election, Venstre lost four seats but remained the largest single party in Parliament, ahead of the Social Democrats, who lost five seats. | | | In the election, both the Progress Party - whose voting strength had been steadily diminishing for several years - and the Center Democrats lost all their Folketing seats. | | | Denmark held an early parliamentary election on Tuesday, February 8, 2005. |
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http://electionresources.org/dk
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| | Danish Referrendums |
| | For even though Denmark is a representative democracy, the Constitutional Act lays down that there are situations in which all citizens of the country may or shall be directly involved in a decision, and where the voters have the last word. | | | This means that everyday political decisions are made by representatives elected by the citizens; not by the citizens themselves. | | | This applies to local authorities and counties as well as at national level when citizens, at general elections, compose the Folketing, which shall consist of 179 Members. |
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http://www.eu-oplysningen.dk/fakta_en/denmark/referenda?caldate=2005-02
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| | 1 Basic information about Denmark, Danish Environmental Protection Agency |
| | The legislative power rests with the Folketing; the executive power with the government (the Ministers); and the juridical power rests with the courts of justice. | | | Denmark is divided into 14 counties each of which is governed by a county council elected for a 4-year periods by direct election using the system of proportional representation. | | | Regional level: The counties; elected county councils and county administrations |
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http://www.mst.dk/udgiv/publications/2001/87-7944-519-5/html/kap01_eng.htm
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| | The Danish EU Presidency - eu2002.dk - The Government |
| | The Government is supported by one or more parties in the Folketing, where most of the ministers also hold a seat. | | | According to the Constitution, the Government must resign or call an election if the Folketing returns a vote of 'no confidence' in the Prime Minister. | | | The Prime Minister himself appoints his ministers, who are subsequently appointed by the Queen. |
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http://www.eu2002.dk/EU2002/denmark?MenuElementID=6144
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| | Member of the Folketing for the Copenhagen County constituency from 8 Dec. 1981. | | | Member of the Folketing for the Copenhagen County constituency from 12 Dec. 1990. | | | Member of the Folketing for the South Jutland County constituency 11 March 1998. |
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http://www.chez.com/vipsgov/denmark.htm
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| | Figures and Facts - Elections Figures and Facts - Elections |
| | In contrast, voter participation is lower in the metropolitan area: 82.2 percent in Copenhagen as compared to 87.1 percent for the entire country in the elections for the Folketing in November 2001. | | | Presumably, the increased voter turn-out was to a large extent related to the fact that elections were also held for the Folketing on 20 November 2001. | | | This was significantly higher voter participation than in 1997 when only 58 percent voted. |
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http://www.sk.kk.dk/english/tal_faktaUK/valg.html
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| | · Derogations: in the case of flagrante delicto, the consent of the Folketing is not necessary. | | | These substitute members fill the seats of the Folketing which become vacant between general elections. | | | · Validation by the Folketing on recommendation of a committee (S. 33 of the Constitution Act, SO 1 (2) to (7), and 7 (1) (2.) of the Standing Orders of the Folketing, S. 86 and 87 of the Parliamentary Election Act) |
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http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2087.htm
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| | Folketing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | All voters who have not been convicted of criminal acts, making them unworthy for a seat in the parliament, are eligible. | | | In 1953 the people by popular vote adopted a new constitution. | | | The Folketing may consist of no more than 179 members all elected for a four-year term or until the Prime Minister (via the Queen-in-council) calls for elections, whichever comes first. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folketing
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| | The Ombudsman Act |
| | (2) If the Ombudsman reports a matter to the Folketing, a minister or a local authority, cf Section 24, or if he mentions a case in his annual report, he shall state what the person or authority concerned pleaded in defence. | | | If the Ombudsman ceases to enjoy the confidence of the Folketing, it may dismiss him. | | | The Ombudsman may order that one of his staff members shall carry out his functions temporarily. |
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http://www.ombudsmanden.dk/ombudsmanden_en
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| | Anders Fogh Rasmussen |
| | In 1992 Rasmussen resigned from his ministerial posts after a court of enquiry had decided that he had provided the Folketing with inaccurate and incomplete information. | | | He has held numerous positions in government and opposition throughout his career, first winning a seat in the Folketing in 1978. | | | From 1987-1990 he was Minister for Taxation and from 1990 Minister for Economy and Taxation in the Conservative led Poul Schlüter government. |
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http://www.1-free-software.com/en/wikipedia/a/an/anders_fogh_rasmussen.html
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| | Copenhagen Portal - Christiansborg Castle - Danish Parliament - Folketing - Sigthseeing Copenhagen |
| | The Folketing seats 179 elected members from many different parties and governing is still based on the Constitution from 1849, signed by King Frederik VII, and opened for the Danes democratic rights. | | | In the north wing is also the Supreme Court and the Prime Minister's office and department located. | | | Today's Christiansborg Castle was built in stages during 1907-28, and beside being the seat of the Danish Parliament (Folketing) the castle also houses the Royal Reception Rooms with the Great Hall used for banquets held for foreign heads of state and diplomatic audiences. |
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http://copenhagenet.dk/CPH-Chrborg.htm
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| | DENMARK: COUNTRY COMMERCIAL GUIDE - 1998 |
| | The two major non-socialist opposition parties are the Venstre Party (44 seats in the Folketing) and the Konservative People's Party (28 seats). | | | The Queen nominally rules through the Prime Minister and his Cabinet. | | | The Social Democratic Party (SDP, with 63 seats), is the party of Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen and the largest party in the Folketing. |
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http://www.mac.doc.gov/tcc/data/commerce_html/countries/Countries/Denmark/CountryCommercial/1998/ThePolitical.html
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| | Conferenza dei Presidenti dei Parlamenti dell'Unione Europea - Parlamento Italiano |
| | The Folketing therefore could not support the idea from the President of the European Parliament of holding a parliamentary conference prior to the Treaty of Nice. | | | In this committee the Danish ministers, prior to their participation in meetings of the Council of the European Union, must have their proposed mandates for negotiation approved in matters which concern decisions of a wider scope. | | | The European Parliament's influence on inter-governmental conferences is established in the Treaty and by the decisions of the European Council in connection with convening the inter-governmental conference in progress. |
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http://www.camera.it/_cppueg/fra/contributo_danimarca2.asp
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| | EU |
| | The 179 members of the Folketing are directly elected every four years. | | | A referendum can be held, if a petition calling for one has the support of at least one third of the Members of Parliament. | | | After discussions with the party leaders, the Queen appoints the Prime Minister and the ministers from the parties holding the majority in the Folketing. |
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http://www.delhrv.cec.eu.int/members_main_denmark.htm
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| | Polity IV Country Report 2003: Denmark |
| | Folketing (179 seats; proportionally elected; most recent elections, 20 November 2001) | | | Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (V); first elected by the dominant party or coalition in the Folketing in November 2001 | | | The centre-right government of Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen was able to push through the legislation with the support of the far-right anti-immigration Danish People's Party (DF). |
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http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/polity/Den1.htm
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| | Denmark: Main political issues - A part of Randburg |
| | The voting age is 18 years, and elections are decided by proportional representation with a 2% limit. | | | At times, up to 11 parties have been elected to the Folketing. | | | The Folketing (parliament) has 179 members, including 2 elected in the Faroe Islands and 2 in Greenland. |
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http://www.randburg.com/de/general/general_4.html
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| | Danish Party Leaders |
| | Former Minister and Deputy Premier Minister for the moderate Center Democrats, founded by her father in 1973 as a break-away Faction from the Social Democrats. | | | She was Vice-Chairperson of the Folketing 1994-98 and Secretary from 2005. | | | Also Secretary of the Presidium of the Folketing 1981-86. |
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http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/Denmark_Party.htm
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| | • Elected to Danish Parliament (Folketing) 1973 as Liberal member for Viborg County. | | | • Vice chairman Folketing Housing Committee (1981-86) and Folketing Economic and Political Affairs Committee (1993-98). |
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http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/interactive/profiles/rasmussen/rasmussen.bio.html
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| | Immigration |
| | There are 179 Folketing seats: 135 are proportionally elected within single constituencies, 40 are filled on the basis of the overall proportion of votes a party receives, and 2 are filled from proportionally-elected independent elections in Greenland and the Faroe Islands. | | | Elections are mandated every four years, but the Prime Minister (with a minimum three-week notice) may call early elections. | | | Any discussion of Danish politics must address the proliferation of political parties, as the “Scandinavian party systems are multiparty systems characterized by an increase in the number of parties in elections” (Sundberg 1999, 223). |
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http://lilt.ilstu.edu/critique/spring2002docs/pytel_roper.htm
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| | The Parliament |
| | The political composition of the parliament reflects the will of the voters with great precision | | | A party or coalition may not form a government if opposed by a parliamentary majority. | | | The government is determined by the political composition of the Folketing. |
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http://www.workindenmark.dk/Folketing/0/1/0
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| | Conferenza dei Presidenti dei Parlamenti dell'Unione Europea - Parlamento Italiano |
| | In Denmark it is not only the contents of legislation that are decisive for legislative quality, it is also the democratic procedure through which a law is passed that helps to provide a law with a special quality. | | | Recently the Folketing has passed an amendment of The Standing Orders of the Folketing stating that the period of time from proposal of a bill to the third (and final) reading must be at least 30 days. | | | The role of the Folketing in the political decision-making process |
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http://www.camera.it/_cppueg/fra/denmark.asp
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| | Frank Dahlgaard |
| | The definition of those who are entitled to vote is laid down in the legislation governing elections to the Folketing. | | | To be eligible to vote in elections to the Folketing and the referendum on the Treaty of Amsterdam, one must be a Danish national in the legal sense and have attained 18 years of age. | | | Thank you for your letter of 15th March 1998, in which you refer to the referendum on the Treaty of Amsterdam. |
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http://www.userwebs.dk/zn7ccc0846/DahlgaUK.htm
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| | Bildt Comments: Denmark Moves On! |
| | The election to the Folketing of Denmark resulted in a resounding re-conformation of the centre-right coalition under Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. | | | The two-party coalition is supported in the Folketing by the anti-immigration but pro-welfare state and heavily populist Danish People's Party. | | | After the 2001 election victory, the government faced a most challenging EU presidency, which it handled very well. |
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http://bildt.blogspot.com/2005/02/denmark-moves-on.html
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| | Partianes Politik |
| | After the general election has been sanctioned the individual parties must distribute posts to group chairpersons and spokespersons. | | | Pupils must debate three Bills and consider the influence exerted on them during the process by fellow party Members, voters, experts and interest groups. | | | At that time the Folketing was given the opportunity by the Court to take over the right of use to a larger area in the Upper Basement beneath Christiansborg. |
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http://www.ungtinget.dk/pd/beskrivelse_engelsk.asp
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| | DENMARK MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Statement to the Folketing on Follow-up at national and international Levels to ... |
| | The Folketing also adopted a decision to encourage the Government to mainstream a gender perspective in administrative, policy and planning activities, nationally as well as internationally and to work towards a continuation of the UN's women's conferences in the year 2000 and onwards. | | | The United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing from 4 to 15 September 1995. | | | On 18 May 1995, the Folketing had the opportunity to debate the preparations at an interpellation debate, and on 10 August 1995, the Foreign Policy Committee discussed the government's instructions to the delegation. |
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http://www.un.org/esa/documents/ga/conf177/natrep/nap1996-denmark.htm
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| | Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s opening address to the Folketing (the Danish Parliament) Tuesday 5 October 2004 |
| | It is my hope that all the parties of the Folketing will support this long-term plan and the legislation to follow up on this effort. | | | Since the general election in November 2001, a broad majority in the Folketing has passed approximately 80 per cent of all legislation. | | | I am pleased that we have succeeded in concluding broad political agreements between the Government and the political parties in the Folketing. |
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http://www.um.dk/en/servicemenu/News/FrontPageNews/PrimeMinisterAndersFoghRasmussensOpeningAddressToTheFolketingTheDanishParliamentTuesday5October2004.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1984: Denmark |
| | Conservative Prime Minister Poul Schlüter called for new parliamentary elections in January when the Folketing (parliament) rejected his 1984 budget. | | | Cross references refer to Archive articles of the same year. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_1741585048/1984_Denmark.html
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| | THE WORK IN THE FOLKETING |
| | When the Bill has been adopted, it must be approved in the referendum on 27 September 2005. | | | Home > European Union > Denmark and the Constitutional Treaty > The Bill > The Work in the Folketing | | | Between the first and the second readings the European Affairs Committee of the Folketing will examine the Bill and submit a report on the Bill. |
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http://www.um.dk/en/menu/EU/DenmarkAndTheConstitutionalTreaty/TheBill/TheWorkInTheFolketing
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| | Social Democrats routed in Danish parliamentary election |
| | For the first time since 1920, the Social Democrats will no longer be the largest party in the Folketing, and the bourgeois parties of the centre right have secured their biggest majority since 1926. | | | The Social Democrats suffered a drastic defeat in the Danish general election, which had been brought forward to November 20. | | | His government will also need the support of the rightwing extremist Danish Peoples Party, headed by Pia Kjaersgaard, which gained 4.6 points to reach 12 percent of the vote. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/dane-n28.shtml
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| | Lund University, Doctoral Dissertation |
| | However, the Folketing is a more illustrative case than the Riksdag. | | | This thesis is about bargaining in the Swedish Riksdag and the Danish Folketing. | | | Finally a new classification system is developed in which the two main types of parliamentary systems are labelled bargaining parliamentarianism and voting parliamentarianism. |
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| | Introduction and background, Danish Environmental Protection Agency |
| | The Folketing requests that this be included in the work of the committee. | | | At the same time, the Minister of Environment and Energy also changed the date of the Committee's final report, from the end of 1998, to 1 March 1999. | | | Against the background of the above, the Minister of Environment and Energy appointed a committee to undertake this task in the autumn of 1997. |
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http://www.mst.dk/udgiv/Publications/1998/87-7909-445-7/html/kap01_eng.htm
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| | Election Resources on the Internet: Western Europe |
| | Ministry of the Interior - Folketing Election 2005 - in Danish | | | Greenland Home Rule - Folketing Election Results - in Danish | | | Elections to the Danish Folketing (includes 2005 Folketing election final results) |
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| | PRESS RELEASE |
| | The research committee in the Folketing has now submitted a statement report over this proposal and nine parties (the Social Democrats, the Liberals, the Conservatives, the Socialist People's Party, the Danish People's Party, Social Liberals, Center Democrats, Left-green alliance and the Christian people's party), who represents a substantial majority of the parliament, support the report. | | | In the report the parties clearly express their support for open source and for provision of a good framework for development of open source by the state. | | | This spring, the Socialist Peoples Party put forward a proposal suggesting that the authorities support the spreading of open source in various ways. |
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http://www-math.mit.edu/~abuch/b114/press-release.html
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| | DEA-CCAT: Who is DEA-CCAT? |
| | Furthermore, the Folketing urges the Government to aim at continuing to expand the renewable energy share by an average of 1 percentage point a year up to 2030 and to set up a Council for sustainable development and renewable energy which shall advise the Folketing, the Government and the general public. | | | Against this background the Folketing urges the Government to deliberate the establishment of long term reduction goals for CO2 after the expected completion of the international negotiations in 1997, and subsequently to continue to review the objectives in relation to the international development and the recommendations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. | | | The Folketing notes, moreover, that Denmark feels committed to the conclusions of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and urges the Government to actively work for the halving of the CO2-emissions of industrialised countries by 2030 in relation to 1990. |
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| | Folketing - Wikipedia |
| | Uno de los cambios de la nueva constitución fue la eliminación del Landsting y la introducción de un parlamento unicameral, conocido como Folketing. | | | Mientras que el Folketing representaba a granjeros, mercaderes, comerciantes y la clase media (tradicionalmente, las fuerzas liberales), el Landsting representaba mayoritariamente a la vieja aristocracia (conservadores). | | | Entre 1849 y 1953 el Folketing fue una de las cámaras del Parlamento bicameral conocido como Rigsdag; la otra cámara era conocida como Landsting. |
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| | Folketing - Travel Guide |
| | You're also introduced to the Folketing and its somewhat complicated seating arrangement (left-wing politicians sometimes sit to the right of the podium, depending on their length of service), and the surprisingly engaging collection of paintings of prominent politicians. | | | Well-informed guides lead you up the magnificent staircase to the seemingly endless Vandrehal (Hall of Wandering), where the original Danish constitution from 1849 is exhibited in a silver chest, along with other important historical documents. | | | The Folketing is located in Christiansborg Slot's south wing - walk left around the outside of the building from Christiansborg Slotsplads to reach the entrance. |
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http://travel-guide.traveliseek.com/folketing_avl_li35383.html
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| | Statement by Ambassador Bernstein after the Folketing’s MD Vote |
| | Statement by Ambassador Bernstein after the Folketing’s MD Vote | | | You Are In: Home > U.S. Policy and Issues > Issues in Focus > Missile Defense | | | We also look forward to implementing the agreements that facilitated missile defense cooperation with Denmark and Greenland.” |
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| | Authorities Heading for a Fall |
| | - IT Policy White Paper Presented to the Folketing 1997 | | | "The information society challenges the values and rights we as Danes have gained over the last 150 years...." These are the opening words of the year's white paper to the Folketing. | | | The Minister for Research and Information Technology has set the stage for a broad debate about rights and obligations in the information society. |
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http://www.fsk.dk/fsk/publ/1997/autoriteter/uk/kolofon.htm
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| | Proposal from the European Affairs Committee of the Danish Folketing (February 2001) |
| | It is the attitude of the Committee that is of great importance to strengthen the COSAC co- operation thus strengthening the role of the national Parliaments both individually and by joint efforts in the EU-decision-making. | | | However, we do suggest that it is discussed which role the working group should have and if the working group should only consist of representatives from the troika countries or if all countries should be represented. | | | We have noted that for the preparation of the COSAC-meeting in May, a representative from the European Affairs Committees of each country has been invited to participate in a meeting on 8th and 9th April. |
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http://www.cosac.org/en/meetings/previous/24/cosac_meeting/documentation/danmark
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