He is Danish, in his forties, a jovial face and, under his wise bearing, he shakes up years of tradition, thus working in his own way against the supremacy of English in Europe.
Jesper Petersen, Social Democratic Minister for Higher Education and Research in the government of Mette Frederiksen, has indeed dared to attack the domination of the language of Shakespeare in Denmark, a country in which 85% of the population speaks the 'English.
A way not to improve Franco-Danish relations, old and traditionally good (two countries that have never been at war) but rather - on its own scale - to make linguistic resistance.
As soon as he was appointed in August 2021 by the Social Democratic Prime Minister of Denmark, this political science graduate set himself a goal: not to let English hold the monopoly of the foreign language spoken in Denmark.
He thus worked hard to persuade the parties of the Folketing (the unicameral Danish Parliament)…
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