{"id":47684,"date":"2026-03-24T23:35:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/47684\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T23:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:35:29","slug":"denmark-votes-in-election-shadowed-by-trumps-greenland-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/47684\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark votes in election shadowed by Trump\u2019s Greenland ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Danes were voting \u2060on Tuesday in an election that may hand Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen a third term thanks to her staunch line against US President Donald Trump over Greenland even though cost-of-living worries have hurt her leftist credentials.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Opinion polls show her Social Democrats are headed for their weakest result since before World War II: many Danes blame Frederiksen for not doing enough to protect their Nordic welfare model, while others point to growing \u200cweariness after nearly seven years of her leadership.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Frederiksen, 48, called the vote months before an October deadline, in what observers said was an effort to capitalise on an uptick in popularity when Trump\u2019s rhetoric about controlling Greenland intensified in January and he refused to rule out military force.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But the Greenland issue has since moved to a less heated diplomatic track and has been overtaken by domestic concerns including a proposal for a wealth tax and debates about immigration.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An election advertisement in Copenhagen for Mette Frederiksen, Denmark\u2019s prime minister. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/24\/ffc9af15-d98a-44a5-ab40-e456dd4e2b7e_7a96da15.jpg\" title=\"An election advertisement in Copenhagen for Mette Frederiksen, Denmark\u2019s prime minister. Photo: Reuters\"\/>An election advertisement in Copenhagen for Mette Frederiksen, Denmark\u2019s prime minister. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Still, Frederiksen has campaigned on a promise that her tough and tested leadership skills will help the nation of 6 million navigate a complex relationship with Washington \u2060and a European response to Russia\u2019s war with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI know that sometimes I express myself a bit bluntly,\u201d she said during a recent campaign event. \u201cBut given the \u200ctimes we live in, it is perhaps very good that there are some things that cannot be misunderstood: that Russia should not be allowed to win or that Greenland is not for sale.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danes were voting \u2060on Tuesday in an election that may hand Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen a third term&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,184,72,26572,57,26804,3933,26803,3396,26805,1515,238,16112,9095,241],"class_list":{"0":"post-47684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-greenland","8":"tag-denmark","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-folketing","12":"tag-greenland","13":"tag-hans-engell","14":"tag-lars-lokke-rasmussen","15":"tag-liberal-party","16":"tag-mette-frederiksen","17":"tag-moderates","18":"tag-nuuk","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-social-democrats","21":"tag-troels-lund-poulsen","22":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116286778651638324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47684","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=47684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}