DENMARK AND NORWAY (2)

Today is the 200th anniversary of the dissolution of the union between Noway and Denmark. As you might expect, the countries have different attitudes to it. In Norway hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Oslo in bright sunshine in a big folkefest; the speaker of the Danish Parliament became the first foreigner since Winston Churchill to address the Norwegian Parliament; the Danish queen will be part of the celebrations. Here in Denmark, on the other hand, it was barely mentioned.

Walter Blotscher