On Saturday, the United States marks the country’s 250th anniversary, but at the Rebildfesten it will happen without representatives from the great powers.
Denmark’s Minister of Foreign AffairsLars Løkke Rasmussen (The Moderates), says on Saturday that the development in the USA has been a “personal disappointment” for him in some respects.
This happens in an interview with TV 2 in connection with the country turning 250 years old as a nation on Saturday.
– For me personally, it has been a setback to experience that everything that opened up after the fall of the Berlin Wall has been called into question.
– One of the big question marks emanates from the White House, and it has of course been a personal disappointment, he says.
Saturday marks American Independence Day, July 4 in the United States.
In Denmark, it has been marked for over 100 years in the form of the Rebildfesten, which is marked in Rebild Bakker.
The party is organized by a Danish-American friendship association. The association calls it the largest celebration outside the United States.
This year, however, there will be no representatives from the USA.
This is due to the tense political relationship between Denmark and the USA due to the US President Donald Trump’s desire to take over Greenland.
Aalborg’s city council has threatened to drop the annual grant of around DKK 300,000 if official representatives were invited.
Therefore, the Rebildselskabet chose not to invite official representatives, of whom there have been several in the past, to the celebrations in the hills.
The association feels they have been taken hostage in a major political issue, Jørgen Bech Madsen from the association told DR.
The event in the hills was held for the first time in 1912.
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