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Helle Thorning-Schmidt

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Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.


— Helle Thorning-Schmidt


#down #growth #money #our #pay

Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.


— Helle Thorning-Schmidt


#denmark #leadership #move #move on #needs

For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to.


— Helle Thorning-Schmidt


#aspire #big #big thing #country #denmark

I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well.


— Helle Thorning-Schmidt


#bit #care #children #cooking #doing

Of course we have to address the deficit if we win.


— Helle Thorning-Schmidt


#course #deficit #win

This is not an election where we hand out gifts. It is an election where we ask everyone to contribute more.


— Helle Thorning-Schmidt


#contribute #election #everyone #gifts #hand

We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.


— Helle Thorning-Schmidt


#bandwagon #democrats #economy #far #healthy

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.


— Helle Thorning-Schmidt


#change #denmark #farewell #now #opportunity

We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.


— Helle Thorning-Schmidt


#denmark #did #guards #history #make

We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.


— Helle Thorning-Schmidt


#denmark #must #opportunity #seized






About Helle Thorning-Schmidt

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Did you know about Helle Thorning-Schmidt?

She led the Social Democrats in the 2007 election in which her party suffered modest losses and was forced into a third term in opposition. Early career in Europe
From 1994 to 1997 Thorning-Schmidt led the secretariat of the Danish delegation of Social Democrats in the European Parliament. After her time in Brussels Helle Thorning-Schmidt worked as an international consultant with the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions until being elected MEP in 1999.

Thorning-Schmidt holds degrees in political science from the University of Copenhagen and the College of Europe. She is the first woman to hold either post. She was elected to replace Mogens Lykketoft as Leader of the Social Democrats after the 2005 parliamentary election leading her party through the 2007 parliamentary election which was won by the centre-right alliance and the 2011 parliamentary election after which Helle Thorning-Schmidt was appointed Prime Minister by Queen Margrethe II.

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