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“We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.”

Quote by Anker Jørgensen

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Anker Jørgensen

Anker Jørgensen, a former Prime Minister of Denmark, was born on July 13, 1922, and passed away on March 20, 2016. He served as the Prime Minister of Denmark from the 1960s to the 1980s and was a key figure in the Social Democratic Party. more

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