Denmark has become the only EU member state not to have an agriculture ministry. <\/p>\n
Unveiling her new cabinet, Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen has scrapped the position and replaced it with a newly created ministry for nature and animal welfare. <\/p>\n
Responsibilities for the portfolio will now be spread across five ministries. <\/p>\n
Food and food security will fall under business, while fisheries will be included in the environment ministry\u2019s brief with other elements divided out between the justice and transport ministries.<\/p>\n
Social democrat Christian Rabjerg Madsen takes up the new nature and animal welfare role, having previously served as minister for the interior and housing until 2022.<\/p>\n
The move comes following months of negotiations since the ballot in March. <\/p>\n
‘Pig election’<\/p>\n
Ranked as sixth-largest pork exporter in the world, Denmark\u2019s famous pig sector was firmly in the spotlight throughout the campaign \u2013 which was dubbed \u201cthe pig election\u201d.<\/p>\n
Environmental impact and animal welfare are the principal issues and a commitment to create a commission to \u201ccomprehensively restructure\u201d the pig sector also feature in Denmark’s programme for government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denmark has become the only EU member state not to have an agriculture ministry. Unveiling her new cabinet,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[8000,27,26,7311,327,2799,38,37706,53023,53024],"class_list":["post-103959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-animal-welfare","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-election","tag-eu","tag-food","tag-news","tag-pigs","tag-pork","tag-tommy-moyles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116721903586556247","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}