Copenhagen/Nuuk
Reuters
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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats appeared headed for their worst election outcome in over a century on Tuesday, as migration and welfare concerns obscured broad support for her defiant stance toward Washington over Greenland.
In power since 2019, Frederiksen, 48, had campaigned on a promise that her tough and tested leadership skills would help the Nordic nation navigate a complex relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump and the European response to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
But on Tuesday she emerged bruised both from the left and the right at home, where the cost-of-living crisis has come to the front of…