Tonight I am supposed to meet for drinks with Chresten Anderson, director of the free-market MarkedsCentret think-tank in Denmark. I'm looking forward to hearing what he has to say about the state of economic liberalism in Scandinavia. Perhaps contrary to popular perception, Denmark is actually a very free-market country, ranked 8th in the Heritage Foundation's annual Index of Economic Freedom.
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One of my favorite political quotes of all time actually comes from Denmark's former foreign minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, who remarked in 1992 following Denmark's rejection of the Maastricht Treaty and subsequent victory at that year's European soccer championships, "If you can't join them, beat them."
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