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Danish government negotiations
A fateful meeting for Danish politics: “Now Løkke must confess his colours”
At 4:30 pm this afternoon, Denmark’s political future could be decided, Danish media reports.
Then, the wave-maker Lars Løkke Rasmussen, leader of the Moderates, and the Liberal Party’s counterpart Troels Lund Poulsen will meet. The Moderates will then announce whether they want to be a supporting party for a bourgeois government consisting of the Liberal Party, the Liberal Alliance and the Danish Democrats.
If the answer is yes, it means that Denmark has a new government – eight weeks after the election was decided. If the answer is no, new rounds of soundings await.
– Now Løkke must confess his colours. With his bourgeois background, he should of course join the bourgeois bloc, says the leader of the Danish Democrats, Inger Støjberg, to Danmarks Radio ahead of the meeting.
In exchange for Løkke's support, the bourgeois parties have offered the Moderates great political influence. An offer that Løkke has dismissed as a "test balloon" that cannot fly.
Danish message: Will not support new right-wing government
Vågmästare Lars Løkke Rasmussen does not intend to support a new Danish right-wing government, he says according to TV2 after Friday's meeting with Venstre leader Troels Lund Poulsen.
The proposal was that Venstre, Conservative and Liberal alliance would form a minority government, but the Moderates do not intend to support that, says Løkke Rasmussen.
Venstre leader Troels Lund Poulsen, who attended the meeting, has not yet commented.
Lars Løkke Rasmussen is critical of Venstre's inability to imagine a center-right government.
– We can conclude that Troels Lund has not been able or willing to be involved in the formation of such a government
According to DR, it is likely that Lars Løkke Rasmussen himself or the Social Democrats leader Mette Frederiksen will be given the task of probing going forward.
Quick criticism of Løkke Rasmussen: “Disappointment”
The Danish right-wing parties are reacting with disappointment that the wave-maker Lars Løkke Rasmussen, leader of the Moderates, does not intend to support a bourgeois government consisting of the Left, Conservatives and Liberal alliance.
“Civil-minded people lost big tonight,” writes Conservatives group leader Mette Abildgaard in a post on X.
The Danish Democrats are reacting in a similar way.
“A disappointment that Lars Løkke is turning his back on the possibility of a blue government, and is now turning his back on cooperation with the far left,” writes party leader Inger Støjberg.
Middle East Crisis Peace Talks
Sources: Allies appeal to US to end war
Several Arab countries have in recent days urged the US to end the war with Iran, sources tell Bloomberg. The United Arab Emirates is said to have turned its back on Saudi Arabia and Qatar, who are hoping for an end to the war.
Representatives of the three US-allied countries are said to have said in talks with Donald Trump that the US will not achieve its long-term goals through military conflict.
According to the information, the Arab countries are worried that Iranian attacks will lead to economic chaos in the region. The United Arab Emirates has until recently taken a harder line than Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The Iran war makes it look like Trump will miss his son's wedding
Donald Trump is not expected to be there when his son Donald Trump Jr. gets married this weekend, sources tell CNN. The wedding with Bettina Anderson is being held on an island in the Bahamas in front of fewer than 50 people.
Trump has not made any definitive official announcement, but says it is a “small private event.” The son is getting married at a time when the president is, among other things, handling negotiations with Iran.
– I’ll try to get there. It’s not a good time for me.
NATO's future
Great confusion after Trump's announcement about troops to Poland: "Don't know what it means"
Several NATO allies are expressing confusion after Donald Trump's announcement to send 5,000 American soldiers to Poland - just weeks after he said the US would withdraw the same number of soldiers from Europe, writes AP.
- It's really confusing and not always easy to navigate, says Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) from the NATO meeting in Helsingborg.
Trump's announcement is also not crystal clear to the Americans. A defense source tells the news agency that "they don't know what it means either" - whether it means additional troops, or that the number of troops will remain unchanged.
Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz says Trump's announcement means that the number of US troops in Poland will remain the same as before, which is around 10,000 soldiers.
- One thing is certain, Poland will not lose what we had, he tells AP.
Rutte welcomes Trump's announcement of more troops
NATO chief Mark Rutte welcomes Donald Trump's decision to send an additional 5,000 US soldiers to Poland. He says this at a press conference in connection with the NATO summit in Helsingborg.
- Military experts are now working on the details, he tells Reuters.
Rutte also says that NATO's European member states continue to strengthen their defenses and that they are becoming less and less dependent on support from the United States.
At the same time, he emphasizes that the United States continues to play a major role in Europe's defense, both in terms of nuclear deterrence and conventional defense.
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