Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Former Prime Minister of Denmark and former Secretary General of NATO

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He ran Denmark for eight years, tightened its borders, then ran NATO for five more during its push into Eastern Europe — a rare jump from national office to the top of the Atlantic alliance.

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Anders Fogh Rasmussen entered the Folketing in 1978 and spent the 1980s in ministerial posts overseeing tax and economic policy. In 1993 he published From Social State to Minimal State, a classical liberal brief against the welfare state, but his views drifted toward the centre through the decade. He took the helm of Venstre in 1998 and led a centre-right coalition to power in November 2001, backed by the Danish People's Party. His government froze tax rates, cut others, toughened immigration limits, and collapsed thirteen counties into five regions in what he called the biggest reform in thir…

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Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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I often use Sweden as a discouraging example to promte a free and open debate and maintain a strict immigration policy.
A. Fogh Rasmussen, in Sveriges Television 2016 program Toppmötet interviwed by Fredrik Reinfeldt, second episode. Youtube clip (in Danish).
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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It could never happen in Denmark, Danish people are much more calm than those further south.
Asked about the killing of 4 protestors by the police in Albania during anti-government protests (7 February 2011)
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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I was deeply distressed that the cartoons were seen by many Muslims as an attempt by Denmark to mark and insult or behave disrespectfully towards Islam or Mohammed.
In relation to the Danish cartoon affair (6 April 2009)
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters – the core – is left.
On the Lisbon Treaty, Jyllands-Posten, 25 June 2007
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments.
On potential face-saving deals for Poland on the Lisbon Treaty (21 June 2007)
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