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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Danish government plans to scrap bank holiday to increase defence spending

Mette Frederiksen, in a long red coat, gestures with her hands to present members of the new Danish coalition government standing next to her
The Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen (centre), with coalition partners Jakob Ellemann-Jensen (left) and Lars Loekke Rasmussen (right) at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen on Thursday. Photograph: Liselotte Sabroe/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images

Denmark’s new government, the country’s first left-right coalition since the 1970s, has got off to an unpopular start with the announcement that one of its earliest policy proposals is to scrap a bank holiday.

The Social Democrat prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, appointed right-leaning political rivals as key ministers in her new reform-oriented government on Thursday, after close-run parliamentary elections last month.

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