“Safe through uncertain times.”
That’s the message of stability that Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is staking her campaign on ahead of Tuesday’s general elections, as she tries to capitalize on her handling of the showdown with the Trump administration over Greenland.
Frederiksen – whose international profile has been boosted by her strong responses to the war in Ukraine, the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage and the threats made by US President Donald Trump – had to call an election sometime before October. And she chose her moment carefully.
Last year Frederiksen’s Social Democrats were faltering. The center-left party suffered huge losses during local…