Claus Hjort Frederiksen
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Claus Hjort Frederiksen (born 4 September 1947) was the Danish
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 Minister of Finance
Finance Minister of Denmark
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 7 April 2009 to 3 October 2011, as member of the Cabinet of Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Cabinet of Lars Løkke Rasmussen
The cabinet of Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, was announced on April 5, 2009 as Lars Løkke became prime minister after Anders Fogh Rasmussen was offered the post of Secretary General of NATO on April 4, 2009....

. From 2001 to 2009, he was Minister of Employment of Denmark in cabinets I
Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I
After the 2001 Danish parliamentary election, Anders Fogh Rasmussen was able form a government coalition of his own Liberal Party Venstreand the Conservative People's Party. It was a minority government with the parliamentary support of the Danish People's Party. The resulting cabinet is called the...

 II
Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen II
Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen retained his parliamentary support in the 2005 Danish parliamentary election, and was able to continue as head of his government. On 18 February 2005, he presented his updated cabinet, the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen II...

, and III
Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen III
The third Cabinet of Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen was announced on November 23, 2007.-Changes from the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen II:...

 of Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Anders Fogh Rasmussen is a Danish politician, and the 12th and current Secretary General of NATO. Rasmussen served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 27 November 2001 to 5 April 2009....

. He is a member of the liberal
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 party Venstre
Venstre (Denmark)
VenstreThe party name is officially not translated into any other language, but is in English often referred to as the Liberal Party. Similar rules apply for the name of the party's youth wing Venstres Ungdom. , full name Venstre, Danmarks Liberale Parti , is the largest political party in Denmark...

. He has been a member of parliament (Folketinget) since the 2005 Danish parliamentary election.

Before he was appointed as Minister of Employment in 2001, Frederiksen was party secretary
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 of Venstre and as such he served as Fogh Rasmussen's closest advisor in creating the political program that eventually led to Fogh Rasmussen's ascent to the office of Prime Minister. The political program involved a closer relationship and dependency on the Danish People's Party
Danish People's Party
The Danish People's Party is a political party in Denmark which is frequently described as right-wing populist by political scientists and commentators. The party is led by Pia Kjærsgaard...

and Frederiksen has notedly remarked that there exists a special community of values between said party and Venstre.

In 2009 radio journalist Jesper Tynell won the Cavling Prize for a series of 15 radiospots in DR P1's ”Orientering” showing [the]"minister's less democratic methods". Among the revelations were:
  • Claus Hjort Frederiksen (as Minister of Employment) gave the parliament false information.

  • The Minister abolished the requirements to foreign worker safety in dangerous jobs - in secret and outside parliament.

  • The Ministry asked the municipal administers to rule (the so-called 300-hour rule) in an illegal manner.

  • The Ministry ordered misleading figures from Arbejdsmarkedsstyrelsen to turn the public debate to their advantage.

  • Officials deleted incriminating documents from the Ministry's own archives.
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