Posted on 25 March 2011. Tags: america, barack obama, Denmark, lars lokke rasmussen, usa
Barack Obama has been caught out using a recycled sound-bite to praise Denmark. The US President rolled out his favourite boxing pun – used to flatter small nations on three previous occasions – when Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen visited the White House last week. Read the full story
Posted in Denmark, General, International, MBL, Politics, United States
Posted on 13 March 2010. Tags: Denmark, economy, GDP, lars lokke rasmussen
The Danish Prime Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, has declared that his country will embark on a range of ambitious projects aimed at increasing the national GDP over the next decade. Read the full story
Posted in Business, Denmark, Energy, General, Marketing and Consulting, MBL, Politics, Society
Posted on 01 January 2010. Tags: climate change, COP15, Denmark, lars lokke rasmussen
Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen finds himself rounded upon by members of the world’s news agencies for his allegedly poor leadership at COP15, with the disappointing results being blamed on what has been called ‘amateurish’ management. Read the full story
Posted in Denmark, General, International, MBL, Politics, Technology
Posted on 09 April 2009. Tags: Copenhagen, Denmark, lars lokke rasmussen, Politics, prime minister
It’s the same name but a new face on the Danish prime minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, who has taken over the country’s top position from Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who stepped down to run for the top NATO spot. The two men may share the same surname, but their pasts couldn’t be more different.
Lars Lokke Rasmussen was once wanted for murder by Interpol. But that was just a misunderstanding resulting from his charity work establishing schools in Afghanistan in 1988. The Copenhagen Post reports that as a young man Rasmussen founded Operation Skoleprojekt to funnel money to the Mujahideen to establish schools in their Soviet-occupied nation. Read the full story
Posted in Denmark, MBL, Politics