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How serious are the rumours about his homosexuality? Is it just a stupid thing that people say, or are they real rumours? He's obviously in favour of gay marriage, so maybe people extrapolate liberally. I can't find an overwhelming number of mentions of these rumours on the internet in either english or danish, and the ones that do show up are somewhat dubious. Should we be including this sort of "rumour" in an encyclopedia? In any case, I think it would be wise to include a link of some sort to proof, since it does not appear to be widespread knowledge. Peregrine981 00:49, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Guys, take a chill pill here. Within Denmark, the alleged "rumor" of Anders Fogh being gay is NOT very widespread, and not many people at all would put any weight whatsoever to it. In fact, it has only been mentioned in a few of the worst tabloids, and even then never as a "fact". So I would hold my horses on this one, if it gets on the article I would certainly think it flies in the face of the WP:BLP policy. 86.14.229.187 ( talk) 00:24, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Being a norwegian citizen living in Denmark I too have on several occasions stumbled across the rumours of Anders Fogh Rasmussen's sexual preferences. They have never been substantiated nor have they found their way into main stream media. More importantly, though, is that there is no tradition in Denmark for prying into politicians' personal lives. Being a proportional parliamentary democracy, danish politics still evolves around parties rather than individuals. Denmark is also a very liberal society as far as sexuality is concerned. -- 192.38.5.215 20:35, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)Roger Christensen
That's absurd. Anders Fogh Rasmussen have been married with Anne-Mette Rasmussen for a long time and have 3 children. Unless someting substantial turns up this rumour should be ignored and certanly not mentioned in the encyclopedia.
I don't think his sexual obsevation is very significant overall. He's married, and whether it's a marriage of love or of practical reasons should be immaterial to the public, so long as both he and his wife are happy with it. What matters is his impact on politics. Bantaar ( talk) 23:20, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
I removed the following: Anders Fogh Rasmussen caused controversy in his support for gay marriage, and he made it clear his support was 'personal' rather than based on his role as prime minister. Because it's bullshit. It's true that he supports gay marriage, and that he said it's his personal view. However, it's not like his party is against gay marriage (they just don't have any official politic about it), and since almost everyone here in denmark share his view it has never caused any controversy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.185.7.8 ( talk) 18:21, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
When he was tax minister in 1992 where there aint something about that he left the post becouse of some accusations that he made tax "fraud"? -- 80.197.219.8 16:54, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I think i owns all danish persons 20 kr... Because of his actions.
I removed the following text added earlier today, as no source was cited.
Thue | talk 08:28, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Thats interesting. Do you have sources on that? -- 194.255.124.250 09:06, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Being Nazi is the most usual form of useless accusation against a right wing politician, just as being a communist is the most usual against a left wing. Unless there is actual evidence, I'd say the chances are 99,9% that it's made-up, since it's EXACTLY the kind of thing people would make up. I don't particularly like Anders Fogh, but I hate people who apparently have no respect for other people and throw hollow accusations and exaggerations at them. There is a bloody lot of difference between right wing and neo-nazi! 62.107.24.213 ( talk) 14:03, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
User:Asbent appears to like adding material about what he claims is a Muslim outrage against Anders Fogh Rasmussen. I have reverted this edit twice today (13 December 2005) and I have no intention of breaking the WP:3RR but I fail to see what possible relevance that edit has to this page.
The Muslim outrage has to do with a Danish newspaper - Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten - printing 12 caricatures of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Diplomats from Egypt and a number of other counties made an official protest and demanded Anders Fogh Rasmussen bring Jyllands-Posten under his control. AFR replied that the government of Denmark, like all other Danish governments since God knows when, believes in Freedom of the Press, and that - under the Danish Constitution - he had no powers to intervene in this dispute. If anyone felt offended, he urged them to use the legal system to solve the dispute. The relevant section of the Danish criminal code is §266B (the clause against racism). Had AFR said anything else, he'd have violated the Constitution's §77. This states that censorship may never again be introduced but that publishers are legally responsible for what they print. Danish law gives him absolutely no authority to intervene in a newspaper's editing.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen has not supported Jyllands-Postens action at all. In fact, he's said that he thought printing the caricatures was a rather bad idea. In my mind, the Prime Minister's, and Jyllands-Posten's - based on a number of articles I've read in that paper - the dispute only involves Jyllands-Posten, not the Danish goverment or anybody else. I'd really like to see a very good reason to include User:Asbent's edit in this page. -- Valentinian 22:58, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
So what's the consensus, we're mentioning it, not mentioning it? Typically our articles such as George W. Bush, Paul Martin and such do not note what seems to be a relatively minor controversy, but perhaps this is a huge issue in Denmark? Sherurcij ( talk) ( Terrorist Wikiproject) 00:01, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I suppose every Law system doesn't accept slander, insult and satire incorrectly publication about a person. What about a Prophet which is respected over than 1,5 billion people all over the world. Unfortunately Denmark ,whether willingly or not,hosted this unconscience event. I describe these cartoons as a global provacation it's a silly explanation to evaluate this publication as a freedom of press. Why? What do they know about ur Prophet? How many message do they hear from him? Simply nothing. How many Europen knows this clue belongs to him. "A man who killed an innocent person is supposed to be killer of all humanity." As an example Islamic thought doesn't permit to sink a ship which has 99 savage banditsand only one innocent for the sake of him or her. In this century, unfortunately because of some occupations, uneducation and any other reasons some(very few) Muslims accept violance as describe theirselves. But most of Muslims reject this. On the view of our Prophet, current Muslim leaeders say "A Muslim must not be a terrorist or A terrorist must not be supposed as a Muslim. I invite Danish people to learn more about Prophet Muhammed. I invite Danish PM to consult to some leaders who are known as conscience as Clinton, Annan; about returning from his great fault. I invite Jillyan Posten to excuse clearly and rejecting to be a part of Global Provocation. ~
Muslims are not interested in the Danish constitution or the justifications for these nasty and unwarranted cartoons. We want an apology from the newspaper for insulting us like this in the worst possible manner. We also dont care how you people slander Christianity or each other. That is your nasty culture and you can continue it. We want an apology for insulting us like this.
I would like to see an article on how the Danish Prime Minister is being charged as breaching the constitution of Denmark and Danish law by involving Denmark in the bloody war and occupation of Iraq. There also calls in Denmark and Europe to put him to trial as a war criminal. this could have important ramifications for other world leaders, including George W. Bush and Tony Blair of the U.K.
The above comment was made by IP: 69.196.139.250 at the time: 03:39, 13 February 2006
Pardon me, but how on earth are som caricatures in Dagbladet Information relevant to an encyclopedia article on a prime minister? "Information" only has around 20000 readers and its stories and news coverage is rarely debated or recited in other Danish media. Surely, these cartoons are only relavant to the paper's core readers - I don't recall them mentioned elsewhere. There is a NPOV problem here!
(this unsigned comment was posted by 84.238.25.152).
Rasmussen received the most "personal votes" of any politician in Denmark with 61,792.
But the article on Poul Nyrup Rasmussen says:
Rasmussen currently sits as an MEP after winning a record number of 407,966 votes for an individual (from Denmark) in the European Parliamentary elections in 2004.
Who's right? Or is it that AFR's record is for Folketing elections and PNR's for EU Parliament elections...? Tamino 12:09, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
This section needs some help. The second and third paragraphs contradict each other, and the last two paragraphs do not seem incredibly relevant. If someone who knows enough about Denmark to know which one is correct can fix it, I would be much obliged. Heavy Metal Cellist talk contribs
I think that it should be included that Anders Fogh Rasmussen participated in the secretive Bilderberg group in 2000 and 2003
http://www.bilderberg.org/2000.htm
http://www.mirrorberg.org/2000.htm
http://www.bilderberg.org/2003.htm
http://www.mirrorberg.org/2003.htm
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bilderberg_2003
I've changed some factual errors in the recently-added post about AFR's resignation as minister of taxation. No court proceding ever took place. Had it taken place, it would have been "Rigsretten". What was carried out was a commission of inquiry that furthermore complained that the papertrail in the Ministry of Taxation was impossible to follow with misplaced files etc. very likely due to the massive and chaotic restructuring / cutbacks this department faced at the same time. Even this [2] "I hate the cabinet and they're all crooks"-website agrees that the dispute involved postponement of two payments respectively from 1988 to 1989 (DKK 16.5 million) and 1989 to 1990 (DKK 35 million). This might be bad accounting practice, but the amounts of cash are completely nil compared to the total size of the Danish public budget, this amount is completely ridiculous. I guess back then, one could have built one tiny school for this amount of cash, but that's about it. I've seen at least one municipality with much bigger accounting errors. The same webpage's speculation about why the opposition was "forced" to bring down AFR is complete rubbish. The opposition tried to get rid of the cabinet any way they could see fit, just like the same parties (now back in opposition) constantly demand the resignation of several cabinet ministers. It can be quite amusing following how often some of the Social Democratic or Radikale spokesmen demand somebody's resignation on TV, but after all, it is an opposition's job to constantly try to bring down the sitting cabinet. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 08:23, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Dear Valentinian
I haven't changed anything in the article itself, but feel that at least two points in the above needs comments: 1) AFR's "resignation" as minister of taxation was in fact him being fired by the primeminister. his "crime" - which had nothing to do with the amount of money, but the fact that he had "grossly misguided" (the words of the commision of inquiry, not mine) the parliament and hence the danish people - was considered so serious, that a majority of said parliament would have removed their support for the entire government, thus leading to its fall, had he stayed in office. 2) Furthermore, his downfall was not due to the left opposition but was actually heralded by the entire parliament, from far left (SF - Socialists People's Party) to far right (Fremskridtspartiet - the forerunners of today's Dansk Folkeparti - Danish People's Party)
Sorry if i've violated any WP-guidelines, this is my first posting here. Oh, by the way, I'm native danish and lives in Copenhagen. 2jakes 20:10, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Valentinian
Thanks for the hearty welcome:-) I tried to find something on the net not too biased on the commisions report and the political struggle going on on- and offstage at the time, but, alas, I couldn't. Whatever I found, it was either from the far left or in complete support of our man of choice:-). But I distinctly remember the wording of the commision quoted above, "grossly misguided" and tv-clips with the late Lilly Gyldenkilde (from SF) and (also late) Kirsten Jakobsen (Fremskridtspartiet), both stating after the publication of the findings of the comission that Anders Fogh Rasmussen would have to go. It is no more than two years ago, I think, that these clips were shown on the sole national commercial tv-station in Denmark (TV2), based in your city:-) I of course agree with you in that Anders Fogh Rasmussen formally resigned - but in order to understand the events, it is equally important to know the background of this resignation - that the parliament found his crime so serious that they would have let the entire cabinet fall, had he not resignated.
But back to the report from the commision: I'm sure that a closer research of the webpage of the parliament [4] would yield the result we're both looking for. Regards 2jakes 21:31, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
There's been a lot of controversy about a case in which danish soldiers with the danish government knowing, have transferred Afghan/Taleban prisoners of war to american prison camps in which they subsequently have been tortured. It has been revealed in a documentary called "Den Hemmelige Krig" meaning "The Secret War" in referral to the alleged 'hush-hush' done by the government. Would someone with the time, dig into this and create a section. Has been done in the danish article.
IPA [fo] is pronounced like the surname of Dario Fo (as Dario Fo is pronounced in italian not in english) which is not how Fogh is pronounced by anyone in Denmark, except as I noted people speaking with a strong funish dialect. To be correctly trabscribed it requires a stød - written [foˀ]. If you continue to claim that the transcription [fo] has been used by "domestic media" then I will require sources for that - and it will have to be sources that are reliable when it comes to representing pronunciation in ipa such as a dictionary or linguistic publication - a news paper article will not do. I agree that it is important to note that his surname is often left out. ·Maunus· ·ƛ· 09:15, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
The article currentlt reads: "So far, it is not proven that Roj TV has any form for connection to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)[discuss], therefore Roj TV must be legal in Denmark according to the Danish law." But, the manager of Roj TV is quoted saying: "Manouchehr Tahsili Zonoozi, a Kurd from Iran who is the station's general manager, acknowledges that the station maintains contact with the PKK, but insists it is not controlled by it." in the article about Roj TV.
I suggest that we write the following instead: So far, it is not proven that Roj TV is the mouthpiece of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), therefore Roj TV is considered legal in Denmark according to the Danish law." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.74.91.24 ( talk) 19:00, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Roj Tv is the television of terrorists, even in cartoons people blow up theirselves, rasmussen and his country loves it.-- 85.100.171.3 ( talk) 22:07, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
What, no section on mr. Rasmussens personal life? Married\unmarried, children, family, is there no info on this? 94.212.216.150 ( talk) 13:33, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Seriously, I find it strange his personal life is not mentioned. 94.212.216.150 ( talk) 08:32, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
The only Danish person I've ever known was named Rasmussen. Is it just a chance impression, or is Rasmussen a very, very common name in DK? Sca ( talk) 19:31, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
It IS a funny coincidence, but not very unlikely given the name's wide spreadth in Denmark. It'd be FAR more odd, say, that America had two presidents named Bush... Bantaar ( talk) 23:44, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
There was a successionbox saying Rasmussen was Minister of Finance from 1990-1992, which i deleted, which was then edited back. Anders Fogh Rasmussen has never been Minister of Finance... I don't really think it is up for debate? http://www.fm.dk/Om%20os/Historie/Tidligere%20ministre.aspx Harald ss ( talk) 10:29, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
This article states that Danish troops were deployed to Iraq because of "Iraq's continued refusal to cooperate with UN inspectors in violation of the UN Security Council's resolution." In fact, in the months before the Iraq War began, Baghdad was cooperating with the UN inspectors. The latter were ordered out of the country by the UN itself just before the start of the war. This article is continuing to peddle a right-wing myth that was concocted to try to justify the Iraq War. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.190.65.102 ( talk) 20:13, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
213.185.28.192 added a filmography section to the article. I undid it, and 213.185.28.192 redid it, leaving a comment on my talkpage. I don't want to get into an edit war over this, so instead, I'll leave it for now and try and see what consensus on the filmography is here on the talkpage. The filmography contains two documentaries about Fogh Rasmussen and Denmark's involvement in war; it also contains a fictional movie about the murder of Fogh Rasmussen. The way I see it, a filmography should contain either movies by or starring Anders Fogh Rasmussen, of which to my knowledge there are none. Furthermore, Fogh Rasmussen is, I'm sure, featured in many, many more documentaries than these two. Judging from 213.185.28.192's comment on my talkpage, the inclusion of these documentaries may also be construed as POV: "Excuse me sir, but that Anders is not in any of the film is a complete lie. The two documentary movies are particularly interesting because they reveal Anders and his government as war criminals not following the Geneva conventions, this might be interesting for the general public to know since he is now chairman for NATO. The journalist of "Den hemmelige krig" was prosecuted for misinformation and Anders government answered with a 300 page long report. The journalist was later found not guilty. I was not aware that Wikipedia in this sense is suppressing liberty of speech and censoring crucial background information of general interest, just because you happen to have wicked political views...". The information in this comment may actually, if well sourced, be appropriate to the article on Anders Fogh Rasmussen, but this does not follow from putting it in a filmography section. The article on Tony Blair, for instance, has a section entitled Portrayals and cameo appearances which does not contain documentaries, but does contain both movies and series he's actually appeared in, as well as info on who has played him in movies like The Queen. But what does people think? - Lilac Soul ( Talk • Contribs) • I'm watching this page so just reply to me right here! 05:36, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
As I know this is not true: "Rasmussen has focused almost exclusively on the tyrannical nature of Saddam Hussein's regime." If no source can be found, I think the statement should be deleted. Rerumirf ( talk) 11:12, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
Regarding:
I think that should be marginal tax rate, not flat tax rate. A flat tax rate of 50% would raise the overall tax rate for most Danes!
In particular, I have never heard the Conservative party talk about a flat tax rate. That is usually reserved for the party Liberal Alliance and usually a proposed flat tax rate of 40%.
-- Mortense ( talk) 17:44, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Can this be added to the wikiepedia article, it's been widely cited in many news sources?
Vladimir Putin said that current NATO General Secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen secretly recorded and leaked a private conversation with him, when he was the head of the Danish government. Initial reaction was a denial issued through NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu who commented - “These accusations are complete nonsense. During his term in office as Danish Prime Minister, Mr Fogh Rasmussen never brought a dictaphone to record meetings with Mr Putin or anybody else.” Mr. Gulbrandsen, a journalist with Danish public broadcaster DR, told Politiken that his subject was indeed wearing a microphone when he met with Mr. Putin in Brussels in 2002. Mr. Rasmussen was wearing the microphone to be heard during a meeting with journalists, and he didn't take it off when he later met with Mr. Putin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:120B:2C3E:73A0:21B:77FF:FECC:E4ED ( talk) 15:34, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
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How serious are the rumours about his homosexuality? Is it just a stupid thing that people say, or are they real rumours? He's obviously in favour of gay marriage, so maybe people extrapolate liberally. I can't find an overwhelming number of mentions of these rumours on the internet in either english or danish, and the ones that do show up are somewhat dubious. Should we be including this sort of "rumour" in an encyclopedia? In any case, I think it would be wise to include a link of some sort to proof, since it does not appear to be widespread knowledge. Peregrine981 00:49, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Guys, take a chill pill here. Within Denmark, the alleged "rumor" of Anders Fogh being gay is NOT very widespread, and not many people at all would put any weight whatsoever to it. In fact, it has only been mentioned in a few of the worst tabloids, and even then never as a "fact". So I would hold my horses on this one, if it gets on the article I would certainly think it flies in the face of the WP:BLP policy. 86.14.229.187 ( talk) 00:24, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Being a norwegian citizen living in Denmark I too have on several occasions stumbled across the rumours of Anders Fogh Rasmussen's sexual preferences. They have never been substantiated nor have they found their way into main stream media. More importantly, though, is that there is no tradition in Denmark for prying into politicians' personal lives. Being a proportional parliamentary democracy, danish politics still evolves around parties rather than individuals. Denmark is also a very liberal society as far as sexuality is concerned. -- 192.38.5.215 20:35, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)Roger Christensen
That's absurd. Anders Fogh Rasmussen have been married with Anne-Mette Rasmussen for a long time and have 3 children. Unless someting substantial turns up this rumour should be ignored and certanly not mentioned in the encyclopedia.
I don't think his sexual obsevation is very significant overall. He's married, and whether it's a marriage of love or of practical reasons should be immaterial to the public, so long as both he and his wife are happy with it. What matters is his impact on politics. Bantaar ( talk) 23:20, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
I removed the following: Anders Fogh Rasmussen caused controversy in his support for gay marriage, and he made it clear his support was 'personal' rather than based on his role as prime minister. Because it's bullshit. It's true that he supports gay marriage, and that he said it's his personal view. However, it's not like his party is against gay marriage (they just don't have any official politic about it), and since almost everyone here in denmark share his view it has never caused any controversy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.185.7.8 ( talk) 18:21, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
When he was tax minister in 1992 where there aint something about that he left the post becouse of some accusations that he made tax "fraud"? -- 80.197.219.8 16:54, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I think i owns all danish persons 20 kr... Because of his actions.
I removed the following text added earlier today, as no source was cited.
Thue | talk 08:28, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Thats interesting. Do you have sources on that? -- 194.255.124.250 09:06, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Being Nazi is the most usual form of useless accusation against a right wing politician, just as being a communist is the most usual against a left wing. Unless there is actual evidence, I'd say the chances are 99,9% that it's made-up, since it's EXACTLY the kind of thing people would make up. I don't particularly like Anders Fogh, but I hate people who apparently have no respect for other people and throw hollow accusations and exaggerations at them. There is a bloody lot of difference between right wing and neo-nazi! 62.107.24.213 ( talk) 14:03, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
User:Asbent appears to like adding material about what he claims is a Muslim outrage against Anders Fogh Rasmussen. I have reverted this edit twice today (13 December 2005) and I have no intention of breaking the WP:3RR but I fail to see what possible relevance that edit has to this page.
The Muslim outrage has to do with a Danish newspaper - Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten - printing 12 caricatures of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Diplomats from Egypt and a number of other counties made an official protest and demanded Anders Fogh Rasmussen bring Jyllands-Posten under his control. AFR replied that the government of Denmark, like all other Danish governments since God knows when, believes in Freedom of the Press, and that - under the Danish Constitution - he had no powers to intervene in this dispute. If anyone felt offended, he urged them to use the legal system to solve the dispute. The relevant section of the Danish criminal code is §266B (the clause against racism). Had AFR said anything else, he'd have violated the Constitution's §77. This states that censorship may never again be introduced but that publishers are legally responsible for what they print. Danish law gives him absolutely no authority to intervene in a newspaper's editing.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen has not supported Jyllands-Postens action at all. In fact, he's said that he thought printing the caricatures was a rather bad idea. In my mind, the Prime Minister's, and Jyllands-Posten's - based on a number of articles I've read in that paper - the dispute only involves Jyllands-Posten, not the Danish goverment or anybody else. I'd really like to see a very good reason to include User:Asbent's edit in this page. -- Valentinian 22:58, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
So what's the consensus, we're mentioning it, not mentioning it? Typically our articles such as George W. Bush, Paul Martin and such do not note what seems to be a relatively minor controversy, but perhaps this is a huge issue in Denmark? Sherurcij ( talk) ( Terrorist Wikiproject) 00:01, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I suppose every Law system doesn't accept slander, insult and satire incorrectly publication about a person. What about a Prophet which is respected over than 1,5 billion people all over the world. Unfortunately Denmark ,whether willingly or not,hosted this unconscience event. I describe these cartoons as a global provacation it's a silly explanation to evaluate this publication as a freedom of press. Why? What do they know about ur Prophet? How many message do they hear from him? Simply nothing. How many Europen knows this clue belongs to him. "A man who killed an innocent person is supposed to be killer of all humanity." As an example Islamic thought doesn't permit to sink a ship which has 99 savage banditsand only one innocent for the sake of him or her. In this century, unfortunately because of some occupations, uneducation and any other reasons some(very few) Muslims accept violance as describe theirselves. But most of Muslims reject this. On the view of our Prophet, current Muslim leaeders say "A Muslim must not be a terrorist or A terrorist must not be supposed as a Muslim. I invite Danish people to learn more about Prophet Muhammed. I invite Danish PM to consult to some leaders who are known as conscience as Clinton, Annan; about returning from his great fault. I invite Jillyan Posten to excuse clearly and rejecting to be a part of Global Provocation. ~
Muslims are not interested in the Danish constitution or the justifications for these nasty and unwarranted cartoons. We want an apology from the newspaper for insulting us like this in the worst possible manner. We also dont care how you people slander Christianity or each other. That is your nasty culture and you can continue it. We want an apology for insulting us like this.
I would like to see an article on how the Danish Prime Minister is being charged as breaching the constitution of Denmark and Danish law by involving Denmark in the bloody war and occupation of Iraq. There also calls in Denmark and Europe to put him to trial as a war criminal. this could have important ramifications for other world leaders, including George W. Bush and Tony Blair of the U.K.
The above comment was made by IP: 69.196.139.250 at the time: 03:39, 13 February 2006
Pardon me, but how on earth are som caricatures in Dagbladet Information relevant to an encyclopedia article on a prime minister? "Information" only has around 20000 readers and its stories and news coverage is rarely debated or recited in other Danish media. Surely, these cartoons are only relavant to the paper's core readers - I don't recall them mentioned elsewhere. There is a NPOV problem here!
(this unsigned comment was posted by 84.238.25.152).
Rasmussen received the most "personal votes" of any politician in Denmark with 61,792.
But the article on Poul Nyrup Rasmussen says:
Rasmussen currently sits as an MEP after winning a record number of 407,966 votes for an individual (from Denmark) in the European Parliamentary elections in 2004.
Who's right? Or is it that AFR's record is for Folketing elections and PNR's for EU Parliament elections...? Tamino 12:09, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
This section needs some help. The second and third paragraphs contradict each other, and the last two paragraphs do not seem incredibly relevant. If someone who knows enough about Denmark to know which one is correct can fix it, I would be much obliged. Heavy Metal Cellist talk contribs
I think that it should be included that Anders Fogh Rasmussen participated in the secretive Bilderberg group in 2000 and 2003
http://www.bilderberg.org/2000.htm
http://www.mirrorberg.org/2000.htm
http://www.bilderberg.org/2003.htm
http://www.mirrorberg.org/2003.htm
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bilderberg_2003
I've changed some factual errors in the recently-added post about AFR's resignation as minister of taxation. No court proceding ever took place. Had it taken place, it would have been "Rigsretten". What was carried out was a commission of inquiry that furthermore complained that the papertrail in the Ministry of Taxation was impossible to follow with misplaced files etc. very likely due to the massive and chaotic restructuring / cutbacks this department faced at the same time. Even this [2] "I hate the cabinet and they're all crooks"-website agrees that the dispute involved postponement of two payments respectively from 1988 to 1989 (DKK 16.5 million) and 1989 to 1990 (DKK 35 million). This might be bad accounting practice, but the amounts of cash are completely nil compared to the total size of the Danish public budget, this amount is completely ridiculous. I guess back then, one could have built one tiny school for this amount of cash, but that's about it. I've seen at least one municipality with much bigger accounting errors. The same webpage's speculation about why the opposition was "forced" to bring down AFR is complete rubbish. The opposition tried to get rid of the cabinet any way they could see fit, just like the same parties (now back in opposition) constantly demand the resignation of several cabinet ministers. It can be quite amusing following how often some of the Social Democratic or Radikale spokesmen demand somebody's resignation on TV, but after all, it is an opposition's job to constantly try to bring down the sitting cabinet. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 08:23, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Dear Valentinian
I haven't changed anything in the article itself, but feel that at least two points in the above needs comments: 1) AFR's "resignation" as minister of taxation was in fact him being fired by the primeminister. his "crime" - which had nothing to do with the amount of money, but the fact that he had "grossly misguided" (the words of the commision of inquiry, not mine) the parliament and hence the danish people - was considered so serious, that a majority of said parliament would have removed their support for the entire government, thus leading to its fall, had he stayed in office. 2) Furthermore, his downfall was not due to the left opposition but was actually heralded by the entire parliament, from far left (SF - Socialists People's Party) to far right (Fremskridtspartiet - the forerunners of today's Dansk Folkeparti - Danish People's Party)
Sorry if i've violated any WP-guidelines, this is my first posting here. Oh, by the way, I'm native danish and lives in Copenhagen. 2jakes 20:10, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Valentinian
Thanks for the hearty welcome:-) I tried to find something on the net not too biased on the commisions report and the political struggle going on on- and offstage at the time, but, alas, I couldn't. Whatever I found, it was either from the far left or in complete support of our man of choice:-). But I distinctly remember the wording of the commision quoted above, "grossly misguided" and tv-clips with the late Lilly Gyldenkilde (from SF) and (also late) Kirsten Jakobsen (Fremskridtspartiet), both stating after the publication of the findings of the comission that Anders Fogh Rasmussen would have to go. It is no more than two years ago, I think, that these clips were shown on the sole national commercial tv-station in Denmark (TV2), based in your city:-) I of course agree with you in that Anders Fogh Rasmussen formally resigned - but in order to understand the events, it is equally important to know the background of this resignation - that the parliament found his crime so serious that they would have let the entire cabinet fall, had he not resignated.
But back to the report from the commision: I'm sure that a closer research of the webpage of the parliament [4] would yield the result we're both looking for. Regards 2jakes 21:31, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
There's been a lot of controversy about a case in which danish soldiers with the danish government knowing, have transferred Afghan/Taleban prisoners of war to american prison camps in which they subsequently have been tortured. It has been revealed in a documentary called "Den Hemmelige Krig" meaning "The Secret War" in referral to the alleged 'hush-hush' done by the government. Would someone with the time, dig into this and create a section. Has been done in the danish article.
IPA [fo] is pronounced like the surname of Dario Fo (as Dario Fo is pronounced in italian not in english) which is not how Fogh is pronounced by anyone in Denmark, except as I noted people speaking with a strong funish dialect. To be correctly trabscribed it requires a stød - written [foˀ]. If you continue to claim that the transcription [fo] has been used by "domestic media" then I will require sources for that - and it will have to be sources that are reliable when it comes to representing pronunciation in ipa such as a dictionary or linguistic publication - a news paper article will not do. I agree that it is important to note that his surname is often left out. ·Maunus· ·ƛ· 09:15, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
The article currentlt reads: "So far, it is not proven that Roj TV has any form for connection to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)[discuss], therefore Roj TV must be legal in Denmark according to the Danish law." But, the manager of Roj TV is quoted saying: "Manouchehr Tahsili Zonoozi, a Kurd from Iran who is the station's general manager, acknowledges that the station maintains contact with the PKK, but insists it is not controlled by it." in the article about Roj TV.
I suggest that we write the following instead: So far, it is not proven that Roj TV is the mouthpiece of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), therefore Roj TV is considered legal in Denmark according to the Danish law." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.74.91.24 ( talk) 19:00, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Roj Tv is the television of terrorists, even in cartoons people blow up theirselves, rasmussen and his country loves it.-- 85.100.171.3 ( talk) 22:07, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
What, no section on mr. Rasmussens personal life? Married\unmarried, children, family, is there no info on this? 94.212.216.150 ( talk) 13:33, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Seriously, I find it strange his personal life is not mentioned. 94.212.216.150 ( talk) 08:32, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
The only Danish person I've ever known was named Rasmussen. Is it just a chance impression, or is Rasmussen a very, very common name in DK? Sca ( talk) 19:31, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
It IS a funny coincidence, but not very unlikely given the name's wide spreadth in Denmark. It'd be FAR more odd, say, that America had two presidents named Bush... Bantaar ( talk) 23:44, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
There was a successionbox saying Rasmussen was Minister of Finance from 1990-1992, which i deleted, which was then edited back. Anders Fogh Rasmussen has never been Minister of Finance... I don't really think it is up for debate? http://www.fm.dk/Om%20os/Historie/Tidligere%20ministre.aspx Harald ss ( talk) 10:29, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
This article states that Danish troops were deployed to Iraq because of "Iraq's continued refusal to cooperate with UN inspectors in violation of the UN Security Council's resolution." In fact, in the months before the Iraq War began, Baghdad was cooperating with the UN inspectors. The latter were ordered out of the country by the UN itself just before the start of the war. This article is continuing to peddle a right-wing myth that was concocted to try to justify the Iraq War. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.190.65.102 ( talk) 20:13, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
213.185.28.192 added a filmography section to the article. I undid it, and 213.185.28.192 redid it, leaving a comment on my talkpage. I don't want to get into an edit war over this, so instead, I'll leave it for now and try and see what consensus on the filmography is here on the talkpage. The filmography contains two documentaries about Fogh Rasmussen and Denmark's involvement in war; it also contains a fictional movie about the murder of Fogh Rasmussen. The way I see it, a filmography should contain either movies by or starring Anders Fogh Rasmussen, of which to my knowledge there are none. Furthermore, Fogh Rasmussen is, I'm sure, featured in many, many more documentaries than these two. Judging from 213.185.28.192's comment on my talkpage, the inclusion of these documentaries may also be construed as POV: "Excuse me sir, but that Anders is not in any of the film is a complete lie. The two documentary movies are particularly interesting because they reveal Anders and his government as war criminals not following the Geneva conventions, this might be interesting for the general public to know since he is now chairman for NATO. The journalist of "Den hemmelige krig" was prosecuted for misinformation and Anders government answered with a 300 page long report. The journalist was later found not guilty. I was not aware that Wikipedia in this sense is suppressing liberty of speech and censoring crucial background information of general interest, just because you happen to have wicked political views...". The information in this comment may actually, if well sourced, be appropriate to the article on Anders Fogh Rasmussen, but this does not follow from putting it in a filmography section. The article on Tony Blair, for instance, has a section entitled Portrayals and cameo appearances which does not contain documentaries, but does contain both movies and series he's actually appeared in, as well as info on who has played him in movies like The Queen. But what does people think? - Lilac Soul ( Talk • Contribs) • I'm watching this page so just reply to me right here! 05:36, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
As I know this is not true: "Rasmussen has focused almost exclusively on the tyrannical nature of Saddam Hussein's regime." If no source can be found, I think the statement should be deleted. Rerumirf ( talk) 11:12, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
Regarding:
I think that should be marginal tax rate, not flat tax rate. A flat tax rate of 50% would raise the overall tax rate for most Danes!
In particular, I have never heard the Conservative party talk about a flat tax rate. That is usually reserved for the party Liberal Alliance and usually a proposed flat tax rate of 40%.
-- Mortense ( talk) 17:44, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Can this be added to the wikiepedia article, it's been widely cited in many news sources?
Vladimir Putin said that current NATO General Secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen secretly recorded and leaked a private conversation with him, when he was the head of the Danish government. Initial reaction was a denial issued through NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu who commented - “These accusations are complete nonsense. During his term in office as Danish Prime Minister, Mr Fogh Rasmussen never brought a dictaphone to record meetings with Mr Putin or anybody else.” Mr. Gulbrandsen, a journalist with Danish public broadcaster DR, told Politiken that his subject was indeed wearing a microphone when he met with Mr. Putin in Brussels in 2002. Mr. Rasmussen was wearing the microphone to be heard during a meeting with journalists, and he didn't take it off when he later met with Mr. Putin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:120B:2C3E:73A0:21B:77FF:FECC:E4ED ( talk) 15:34, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
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