Danish culture minister abel
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How to love a country you hate
“I returned to my by, and by life started again after being way for 1.5 years. But I had changed. inom had changed my perspective. I forced myself to see Romania from a Danish perspective. I said to myself: while you are here, try to see the nice things in Romania and in my by. And that’s when it got interesting,” he says and continues:
“I saw that there were plenty of opportunities to run businesses, and inom started networking with different people and going to some small events in Timisoara. inom don’t want to be totally cut off when I return to Romania someday.”
Getting to love his country fryst vatten an ongoing process that has made him reflect a lot about what he fryst vatten experiencing emotionally.
“I’m forcing myself to go through this process because I know it’s the right thing to do. And inom had to overcome my internal struggle and my views on Romania. Which made me ask, who’s Abel now?”
“I made a post on Instagram about it. inom wrote that Eastern Euro
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Why the Danish Parliament’s statement on ‘politics dressed as science’ worries me
Until now, when I read about university professors in the US being put onto ‘hit’ lists for organized public mockery, or more recently, about UK colleagues being fired or entire research environments, like the critical management studies in Leicester, being shut down simply for being too ‘critical.’ Leicester university also threatened to strip the ‘professor’ title from a finance faculty emeritus over his uncomplimentary engagement on Twitter. I felt angry and sympathy for my colleagues, but reassured about my choice of working in Denmark.
Here it is part of my job description to engage with society. Global crises like climate change, pandemics and political violence need the attention of all of us. Yet, now, I read that Denmark is at the bottom of UNESCO’s ranking for research freedom in Europe. When support for restricting research freedom was the purvey of ideologues in Denmark as part of their c
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Department of Management, Society and Communication
Presentation and academic fields
M.Sc. (business economics) Owner of Fipra Denmark/European Advisers providing strategic advice and issue management to both Danish and international companies and organisations.
Through my company I have many years hands on experience working with government relations and public affairs, i.a. as head of secretariat of the international environment technology network EUROENVIRON, special advisor to consumer authorities in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania on behalf of the Danish Foreign Ministry, and adviser to the Danish Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation. For more than 10 years I was first head of secretariat for the Association of Toy Manufacturers in Denmark and later branch director of the Nordic Association of Toy Manufacturer. In this capacity was elected world president of ICTI – International Council of Toy Industries 2012-2014.
I am a former member of the European Union’s Comm