EU-DIGEST

Denmark to host wind energy seminar in Pretoria - by Christy van der Merwe

In promoting wind energy, and its potential to become big business in South Africa, Danish Foreign Affairs Minister Per Stig Moller would open a wind energy seminar in Pretoria on January 23. South African Minister of Minerals and Energy Buyelwa Sonjica would also be present at the seminar, where Danish companies Vestas Wind Systems, Dong Energy, and Suzlon Wind Energy would make presentations on the global green energy frontier. The one-day international seminar would be hosted by the Embassy of Denmark in Pretoria and the South African Cities Network in cooperation with the Danish energy players.

Denmark developed its wind energy strategies in the 1970s and 1980s, and, at present, renewable energies, largely wind, made up 27% of the country's electricity supply. Wind power has become big business, and Danish companies were viewed as world leaders in wind power production.

Labels: Denmark, Education, EU, South Africa, Wind Turbines

For Denmark's Entrepreneur of Year, Something Was Rotten - by Andrew Higgens

At a banquet in Copenhagen late last month, accounting firm Ernst & Young feted a Danish software company for runaway growth under Stein Bagger, its dynamic chief executive. About a thousand guests, including Denmark's tax minister and leading business people, were there to applaud.But Mr. Bagger, the night's big winner, wasn't there to pick up the accolade of "Entrepreneur of the Year" and two other awards. He was busy fleeing from what investigators now describe as Denmark's biggest business scam in decades. Shortly before the banquet began, Mr. Bagger, 41 years old, vanished from a hotel in Dubai. He flew to New York, drove across America and then surrendered to police in Los Angeles. In the meantime, his award-winning company, IT Factory, declared bankruptcy. A liquidator has taken over IT Factory and is sifting through its affairs. Sent back to Denmark Tuesday, Mr. Bagger cried and pleaded guilty before a Danish court to charges of aggravated fraud and forgery, crimes that could land him in jail for eight years, according to his court-appointed lawyer, Jesper Madsen.

The saga has fascinated and appalled a nation that takes pride in its Nordic rectitude. The chief investigator estimates the swindle amounted to around $185 million, a modest sum next to the alleged fraud of America's Bernard Madoff but enough to fuel a jet-set lifestyle of sports cars and French Riviera holidays sharply at odds with the Danish norm.KPMG audited IT Factory's accounts from 2005 through 2007. Deloitte did the same in the previous two years. From 2003 through 2007, IT Factory reported that its revenue grew 69 times and its profit rose 288 times, to 121 million kroner ($22 million). This year, says Mr. Jensby, the chairman, IT Factory expected to roughly quadruple its profit. KPMG in Denmark says it is "shocked" and "cooperating with police." Deloitte's Danish unit said it has double-checked its 2003 and 2004 audits and found no problems.

Labels: Denmark, EU, Fraud, IT Industry

Greenlanders Vote on Autonomy as Slump Clouds Independence Plan - by Christian Wienberg

Greenlanders vote today on a proposal to wrest more autonomy from Denmark, an effort at increasing control over their natural resources that may founder in the face of the global economic slump. The referendum, which polls show is likely to be approved, would give the 56,000 mainly native Inuit citizens of Greenland full control over deciding whether they want to secede from Denmark. Currently, the government in Copenhagen would have to approve such a move. It would also for the first time mandate a division of income from natural resources with Denmark, which has ruled the territory since the 18th century.“The prospects that Greenland will become a natural resource-based economy certainly haven’t improved,” said Lars- Emil Johansen, former premier of Greenland, and one of the lawmakers who drafted the bill that’s up for vote. Greenland is also rich in diamonds, iron ore, lead, zinc and uranium. Greenland entered the then European Community -- now the European Union -- with Denmark in 1973. It quit the bloc in 1985 in a dispute over fishing quotas, making it the only region to ever withdraw from the EU, which now has 27 members. Passage of today’s referendum would presage a vote on full independence, government officials and trade union leaders say.

Premier Hans Enoksen has said Greenland may hold a referendum on full independence by 2020, while SIK, Greenland’s biggest labor union, has said it wants a vote in 2012.

Labels: Denmark, EU, Greenland, Political

ECB put up more cash, Euro 12b (US 15.1B) to Denmark

The ECB, the central bank for the 15-nation euro zone -- of which Denmark is not a member -- said the 12 billion euro ($15.1 billion) swap will remain in effect as long as needed. It was done with the goal of increasing the amount of cash in short-term euro money markets. The move will make it easier for Denmark, whose krone currency is pegged to the euro, to get access to euros. The ECB provided similar moves for Hungary and Switzerland earlier this month. The swap will provide euros to the Danish bank in exchange for Danish kronor and should lower the exchange rate for euros in Denmark.

Labels: Denmark, ECB, EU

The Woman Steering Denmark’s Alternative Energy Success : by Gavin Hudson

Since 2007, Connie Hedegaard has been behind Denmark’s energy successes. In April, she signed an action plan with India on renewable energy. One notable achievement was her role in introducing Denmark’s Energy Policy 2008-2011. The policy made her country the first in the world to commit to an overall energy reduction, not just a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. It includes the following language.Denmark is an exemplar of successful sustainable energy policy. Today, around 20% of Denmark’s energy is supplied by wind power. Not only is the country energy independent, its energy consumption hasn’t risen since the ’70s, despite 50% economic growth, according to Flemming Hansen, former Minister of Transport and Energy.

Labels: Alternative Energy, Denmark, EU

Iceland secures €200m from Norway, Denmark - by Angela Jameson and Steve Hawkes

Iceland secured €200million (£156million) from Norway and Denmark yesterday as it sought help to stablise its stricken economy, but talks to secure a far larger loan from Russia continued. It also emerged yesterday that the country, which has been forced to nationalise its banking sector, is only one of several asking the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for financial assistance. According to reports, Hungary, Ukraine and Serbia have signalled that they need help, too.

Labels: Denmark, Iceland, Norway, World Economy

Denmark cuts 2009 economic growth forecast to 0.7%

Denmark's Finance Ministry cut on Monday its forecast for economic growth next year to 0.7 percent from a prediction of 1 percent in February, but said the economy was well-positioned to weather the global slowdown. In its latest economic outlook, the government left its 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast unchanged at 1.2 percent.
The 2008 public budget surplus was seen at 72.4 billion Danish crowns ($15.26 billion), up from 66.7 billion in February, helped by larger North Sea oil revenues. The 2009 surplus was seen at 53 billion, up from 51.5 billion in February. "Even though growth is dampened and employment falls, unemployment will continue to be historically very low -- so low that the pressure on wages will continue for some time," Finance Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said in a statement.

Labels: Denmark, Economy, EU

Denmark aims to halt rising sick leave

Denmark's liberal-conservative government said yesterday it would create an action plan to combat rising sick leave numbers, with the aim of reducing them by 20 percent by 2015. "The rise in absenteeism due to sickness is of concern, especially long-term sick leave which is the root of all problems since we know that one in four people on sick leave for more than a year-and-a-half will end up on a disability pension," Employment Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen said. Since 2005, the number of people on sick leave for at least three months has risen by 25 percent, a report published yesterday showed.

Labels: Absenteism, Denmark, EU

EU business backs SWF code, Denmark wants rules

The European Union's top business lobby backed the idea of a voluntary code of conduct for cash-rich state-owned wealth funds but Denmark said it should only be a first step to mandatory rules. Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) hold an estimated $2.5 trillion generated by booming commodity and energy exports as a massive treasure chest for investment in companies. SWFs from Russia and China have been eyeing EU firms, prompting France and Germany to fear that such funds were more interested in influencing strategic sectors than by profit.

Labels: Denmark, Economy, EU, Europe

A Danish journalist came this close to getting shot Saturday by an elderly woman packing a pistol near President Bush's ranch here in what was easily the strangest incident I've ever witnessed covering the White House. It all started so innocently as I sat with a group of Danish journalists just down the street from Bush's ranch during a visit by Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The two leaders were having lunch on the ranch, so I was waiting at a nearby historic one-room schoolhouse with White House staff to interview Rasmussen after the meal. Then the prime minister was going to do a brief press conference with the Danish press corps.

Terkel Svensson, a writer for the Danish News Agency, could not get wireless Internet access at the schoolhouse to file a story. But Svensson could get his cell phone working so he called his editor in Copenhagen and started wandering across a quiet country road as he chatted away. Next thing you know the woman is outside, no more than a few dozen feet from the journalist, demanding that he leave. "Suddenly she comes out and she says, 'Get off my property. You're trespassing,'" recalled Svensson.

Svensson was too preoccupied to notice the pistol, and was not aware that Texas law gives homeowners leeway on using a weapon when someone is trespassing on your property. All of us journalists across the street were too far away to see the pistol at first, until a Danish photographer with a telephoto lens announced to a bunch of us that there was indeed a weapon in the elderly woman's right hand.

Labels: Denmark, EU, Press, US

Sudan: President calls for Muslims to boycott Denmark

President Omar al-Bashir vowed on Wednesday to ban Danes from Sudan and called for a Muslim boycott of Denmark before a crowd of tens of thousands denouncing the country at a government-backed protest against a cartoon satirizing the Prophet Muhammad. The rally outside al-Bashir's palace in Khartoum was the biggest protest in the Muslim world since Danish papers reprinted the cartoon, seen by many Muslims as insulting to their religion's most revered figure. The demonstration raised fears that renewed protests over the cartoon — so far small and scattered — could grow.

Labels: Denmark, EU, Sudan

RIOTS IN DENMARK! Muslim Youths Go On Torching Rampage

Six youths were arrested in Copenhagen for setting cars and dumpsters ablaze and throwing stones at police in a fifth night of riots in a predominantly immigrant area of the Danish capital, police said Friday. "We've had six arrests so far. They've been charged with throwing stones at police and setting fires to cars and waste containers," Chief Inspector Henrik Olesen of the Copenhagen police told AFP. At least 11 cars were torched in various neighbourhoods of Copenhagen, and 10 others in the nearby town of Kokkedal. On Thursday, 17 youths were arrested for rioting the previous night. "We don't know why they're rioting. I think it's because they're bored. Some people say it's because of the cartoons but that's not my opinion," Olesen said.

Note EU-Digest: Even though the Danes asked for this by republishing the cartoons in Denmark, Muslim immigrants need to understand a) that we have a secular society in the EU and B) that the EU respect the freedom of the press, religion and also consider women equal to men. We can only hope the Danish government will revoke the Danish/European citizenship from these vandals and extradite them to their country of origin.

Labels: Cartoons, Denmark, illegal immigrants, Muslims, Vandalism

Denmark grants asylum to 370 Iraqis

Denmark has granted asylum to nearly 370 Iraqi civilians who were spirited out of their homeland in a resettlement program for interpreters and others who worked for Danish troops in Iraq, immigration officials said Monday. None of the 376 asylum claims filed by Iraqi aides and their dependents has been rejected, Danish Immigration Service spokesman Morten Bo Laursen told The Associated Press.

Labels: Denmark, EU, Iraq

Greenland to vote on wider autonomy from Denmark

Greenland will hold a referendum on wider autonomy later this year, a first step towards independence from Denmark, the head of the local government Hans Enoksen said on Thursday. 'The referendum will take place on November 25,' the Greenland leader told AFP following talks in Copenhagen with Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. In the event of 'yes' vote, the broadened autonomy would take effect on June 21, 2009, Enoksen said.

Greenland, which has been a semi-autonomous Danish territory since 1979, would take over control of new unspecified policy areas which are currently decided by Copenhagen. Foreign policy, defence, police and judicial affairs are presently decided by the Danish capital. Broader autonomy would 'constitute the first step toward full independence which is very important to us but which still appears to be a long way off,' Enoksen said. Greenland is closely tied to Europe, specifically Iceland, Norway, and Denmark. In 1978, Denmark granted home rule to Greenland, making it an equal member of the Rigsfællesskab. Greenland is the world's largest island by area (as Australia is considered a continent rather than an island). Greenland has a population of 57,100 (2005),[16] of whom 88% are Inuit or mixed Danish and Inuit. The remaining 12 % are of European extraction, mainly Danish. The majority of the population is Evangelical Lutheran. Nearly all Greenlanders live along the fjords in the south-west of the main island, which has a relatively mild climate. Greenland today is critically dependent on fishing and fish exports; the shrimp fishing industry is by far the largest income earner. Despite resumption of several interesting hydrocarbon and mineral exploration activities, it will take several years before production can materialize. The state oil company NUNAOIL was created in order to help develop the hydrocarbon industry in Greenland. Tourism is the only sector offering any near-term potential and even this is limited due to a short season and high costs. The public sector, including publicly owned enterprises and the municipalities, plays the dominant role in Greenland's economy. About half the government revenues come from grants from the Danish Government, an important supplement to the gross domestic product (GDP). Gross domestic product per capita is equivalent to that of the weaker economies of Europe. The major airport is Kangerlussuaq Airport on the West coast at Kangerlussuaq. Intercontinental flights connect mainly to Copenhagen. As of May 2007, Air Greenland has also initiated a seasonal route to and from Baltimore in the United States.

Labels: Denmark, EU, Greenland

A.P. Møller-Mærsk is no longer the largest company in Denmark

Nova Nordisk has become bigger than Mærsk, while the Novo Nordisk group experienced huge growth Mærsk had problems in the shipping company’s container business and is barly maintaining levels from the year before. The Copenhagen Post reports that “Throughout this year, Novo grew to a whopping DKK 248 billion enterprise and increased its market value by 40 per cent. A whole five billion more than A.P. Møller-Mærsk’s DKK 243 billion.”

Labels: Denmark, EU, Shipping

Denmark: Vote on Euro Planned

Danes will get a new chance to adopt the euro in a referendum, the prime minister said. Denmark opted out of the European Union’s common currency in the early 1990s, when it also declined to forge closer cooperation with the European Union on defense policy and law enforcement. Voters rejected the euro again in a 2000 referendum. But Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a staunch supporter of the European Union, said that voters should reconsider those decisions and that votes on those questions would be held within the next four years. Recent opinion polls have shown that a narrow majority of Danes now favor switching to the euro from the krone.

Labels: Denmark, EU

Intelligence knew of terrorist transports

Comments from former high-ranking CIA members to Politiken newspaper suggest that Denmark’s intelligence service was aware of private planes seizing suspected terrorists in Europe and taking them to countries where torture and execution were sanctioned. Denmark’s governments and its intelligence agency, PET, have continually denied any knowledge of the CIA program. A Council of Europe report indicated earlier this year that Denmark was one of several countries that had covertly approved the program.

The new information has got several parties - the Social Democrats, New Alliance, the Social Liberals and the Red-Green Alliance - to again demand an official investigation into the allegations. Prior requests for a full-scale investigation into whether Denmark was aware of the CIA’s secret programme have been continually refused by the government, which considers the case closed. Abu Talal, a suspected terrorist thought to be the first captured through the CIA programme, had asylum in Denmark in 1995 when he disappeared on a flight from Copenhagen to Croatia - probably arrested by Croatian police and handed over to US authorities.

Labels: CIA, Denmark, EU

Iraq Must Act `Immediately' Against Kurdish Rebels, Rice Says ( what about the US and the EU?) - by Viola Gienger and Ben Holland

The Iraqi government must take ``immediate steps'' against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, as Turkey pledged to wait a few days before deciding on its own military action. The government in Baghdad must ``demonstrate its commitment to regional stability,'' Rice said in a statement with U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband issued yesterday in Washington. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country would await U.S. and Iraqi actions before mounting any raid and suggested Turkey's operation might not involve ground forces.

The U.S. is pressing Turkey to avoid a cross-border attack against the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, out of concern it could destabilize the war effort in Iraq.

Note EU-Digest: "The US statement makes no sense at all. First because the Iraq central government has no control whatsoever over the Kurdish region in Iraq. Whatever they say now is talk only, no action. Only US forces are (maybe) able to remove Kurdish PKK terrorists from the Kurdish region in Iraq. As to the other statement that a Turkish incursion into Iraq would destabilize the country, this is also far removed from the truth. Iraq became destabilized the moment it was invaded by the US and Britain. What is a further destabilizing factor is that PKK terrorists are now provided a safe haven in the Kurdish area of Iraq. This can only spell for more turmoil. If the US and its allies are not able to remove the PKK terrorist threat from Iraq, Turkey should have no qualms to enter Iraq and remove the danger these PKK terrorists present to them and Europe.

Also important in this scenario is that Denmark closes down Roj TV, the media outlet of PKK/KONGRA-GEL (included both in the EU and the US’s on lists of terrorist organizations) from operating freely on its territory. ROJ-TV’s broadcasts can only be defined as incitement to terror and violence, and they fall squarely within the scope of the UNSC Resolution No. 1624. Isn't it time for us in Europe to show we have some "spine" left to help our European applicant member Turkey to eliminate this terrorist threat, which in the long run could harm us all?"

Labels: Denmark, EU, Kurdish PKK terrorists, Roj TV, Turkey

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: hero or phony? - Controversial Politician says Thanks But No Thanks to stay in Denmark

"Persecuted" Politician and author Ayaan Hirsi Ali said she was ‘touched and honoured’ by Denmark’s offer of protected residence but is choosing to stay in the United States. On Sunday, the culture minister, Brian Mikkelsen, said Denmark would give the 37-year-old Dutch-Ethiopian author Ayaan Hirsi Ali asylum. The offer was made under the provisions established by the International City of Refuge Network, where ‘free cities’ are established for writers whose lives have been threatened because of their publications. Ali told Jyllands-Posten newspaper in an interview that it made more sense for her to remain in the United States. In a speech to Europe’s Liberal Democrats (ELDR) congress A Liberal Europe for a Free World, to which network Hirsi Ali’s political party VVD belongs, the Danish PM Mr. Rasmussen insisted on the liberal democracies’ obligation to protect persecuted writers like Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Note EU-Digest: Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is not Ethiopian as is reported in Denmark and by the US Conservative sources but Somali-born. Earlier the Dutch news program Zembla also disclosed she had told a variety of lies about her past in order to get asylum in the Netherlands in 1992. Zembla retraced Hirsi Ali's journey from Somalia, via Kenya, to the Netherlands and uncovered both well-documented and previously unreported inconsistencies in her story. Interviews with her brother, aunt and ex-husband raised doubts about Hirsi Ali's contention she fled to Europe to escape possible retribution from her family for not going through with an arranged marriage. Her relatives contradicted her claim that she was not present during the wedding to the Canadian-Somali man. Hirsi Ali said she was forced to marry a stranger but her ex-husband said they had been in love and spent the week together after the wedding. He then went back to Canada to prepare for her arrival. Supplied with a plane ticket, Hirsi Ali later arrived in Germany and took a train to Amsterdam rather than continue the planned journey to Canada. The program-makers said it was decided to look into her past because of differing accounts she has given over the years about her past. Hirsi Ali said she came clean about the lies she told to get asylum when she joined the Conservative Dutch Liberal Party (VVD) in 2002. Yet prominent VVDer (and now EU Commissioner) Neelie Kroes described Hirsi Ali as a person who had lived through five civil wars in Somalia. This was not true as Hirsi Ali lived in Kenya for over 10 years before coming to the Netherlands. Insiders consider Ms Hirsi Ali a "very intelligent manipulating opportunist" and it seems even the PM of Denmark has become entangled in this controversy.

Labels: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Denmark, EU, The Netherlands

Denmark is EU’s top country in broadband Internet service, Bulgaria and Romania come last

Denmark is the EU’s top country in terms of usage of broadband internet, Bulgaria and Romania come last in the chart, DPA reported, citing a report of the EU. At least 37.2% of the Danish population use broadband Internet, which makes Denmark the world’s first country in that sense, second comes the Netherlands. Bulgaria and Romania that acceded the EU in 2007 are last in the chart respectively with 5.7% and 6.6%. According to the report of the European Commission the richest EU member states are the greatest consumers of broadband Internet. However, Spain and Italy have a rate that is below the EU’s average – 18.2%, whereas Estonia’s broadband Internet service rate is 20%, much above Germany’s rate.

Labels: Broadband, Denmark, EU

Denmark - Inventor helps others put their best foot forward - by Barbara Turnbull

A Montreal industrial designer has walked away with a 100,000 Euro ($143,000 Cdn) prize for the creation of a cheap artificial foot that could help untold numbers of land-mine victims move freely again. Mobility for Each One, designed by Sebastien Dubois as a university project, won one of five prizes yesterday in Copenhagen at the biannual INDEX awards – considered the world's biggest design prize. The prosthetic foot can be made for less than $10 in developing countries.

An electric sports car, a prosthetic foot for land mine victims, the XO'' portable computer, and a potentially lifesaving device known as the ``Tongue Sucker'' were among the winners Friday of an international award honoring innovative designs.

The INDEX prize, which is given out in five $136,000 categories, also awarded an inexpensive laptop designed for children in the developing world and a water purification bottle. The award, which is funded by private and public companies in Denmark, was first given out in 2005 ``to celebrate design that not only looks good but also improves lives of people all over the world,'' said Kigge Hviid, manager of the award foundation.

Labels: Denmark, EU, Innovation

Creative Integration: Denmark to Immigrants -- Let's Ride

Immigrants to Denmark have to learn how to become Danish. And if there is one thing the Danes do a lot of, it's ride bikes. Classes to teach newcomers how to cycle have proven popular.In the summer of 2005, Denmark decided that, if you want to live in Denmark, you have to do what the Danes do. The mandated checklist includes learning Danish, understanding the "fundamental norms and values of Danish society," and making an effort to participate in the community.

Those who drafted that law, however, seem to have forgotten one vital aspect of being Danish -- expert command of the humble bicycle. The country's Red Cross though, is doing what it can to fix that omission.

Labels: Bicycles, Denmark, EU, European Integration

Governing Liberals Now Second in Denmark

The Social Democracy in Denmark (SD) remains ahead of all other political parties in the Scandinavian country, according to a poll by Catinét Research released by Ritzau. 26.6 per cent of respondents would vote for the main opposition party in the next general election, up 1.1 points since mid-June.

In the February 2005 election, the Liberals received 29 per cent of the vote and elected 52 lawmakers to the People’s Diet—four less than in the 2001 ballot. The governing centre-right coalition remained in place with the support of 92 legislators. Liberal leader Anders Fogh Rasmussen has acted as prime minister since November 2001. In April 2005, Helle Thorning-Schmidt became the new leader of the Social Democrats, replacing Mogens Likketoft. Denmark has never had a female head of government.

Labels: Denmark, EU, Politics

Germany, Denmark to Build Controversial New Bridge

After 15 years of dithering, Germany and Denmark have finally approved plans to build a bridge across the Fehmarn Strait in the Baltic Sea. The decision was reached in Berlin Friday at a meeting between Germany's Social Democrat Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee and his Danish counterpart Flemming Hansen.

"This bridge joining nations ought not just to significantly reduce driving time between Hamburg and Copenhagen, it's also very important for transport routes in all of Europe," Tiefensee said, adding the bridge should be completed by 2018. Both countries' parliaments must still approve the plan, which requires a treaty, the German transport ministry said.

Labels: Denmark, EU, Germany

the Havhingsten-fra-Glendalough

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Denmark - Ship on voyage after a thousand years

An 11th-century Viking longship that has been reconstructed to its original condition will soon depart on a seven-week voyage from Denmark across the North Sea to her home port of Dublin, powered only by her sails. The Havhingsten fra Glendalough (The Sea Stallion from Glendalough) is the largest Viking warship ever rebuilt.

On July 1 the vessel will leave the Danish port of Roskilde, which served as the Vikings' flourishing political and commercial centre from the 9th to the 12th century. After a 44-day and 900-nautical-mile crossing using only its huge square sail, the longship and its 65 crew will reach Ireland, where it was originally built in 1040 in the Glendalough forest.

Labels: Council of Europe, Denmark, History, Ireland, Vikings

Denmark leads the way in green energy — to a point - by James Kanter

"Viewed from the United States or Asia, Denmark is an environmental role model. The country is "what a global warming solution looks like," wrote Frances Beinecke, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a letter to the group last autumn. About one-fifth of the country's electricity comes from wind, which wind experts say is the highest proportion of any country.

Countries in Europe like Denmark are far ahead of the United States and others in overall use of green electricity, mostly because of government support. "Europe has really led the way," said Alex Klein, a senior analyst with Emerging Energy Research, a consulting firm with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Barcelona. "Very progressive policies by the Danes and Germany means the wind industry was able to evolve and build up scale."

Labels: Alternative Energy, Denmark, EU, Wind Turbines