Co-chair of ECFR’s Council
Director of the Danish Think Tank Europa
Lykke Friis is director of Denmark’s Think Tank Europa. Previously, she served as prorector at the University of Copenhagen; Danish minister of climate, energy, and gender equality; and the Danish liberal party’s spokesperson for European affairs. In 2007, she was appointed as a member of the EU reflection group on the future of Europe. She also covered Germany as a correspondent for the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende. Besides ECFR, she chairs the board of directors of Denmark’s House of Energy, is a board member of Team Denmark, and is president of the Danish Cancer Society.
As part of the ’Reinventing Europe' project, ECFR is publishing a series of papers on the national debates within EU member states over the crisis and the future direction of Europe. In the tenth of the series Lykke Friis and Jonas Parello-Plesner analyse the situation in Denmark.
The EU is due to decide on Monday whether to lift sanctions against Burma. Instead of lifting all sanctions the EU should follow a gradual approach and focus on targeted assistance and an ambitious social-responsibility framework for European companies.
I suspect the EU will open a different track for membership, with more gradual admission
Lykke Friis comments on the EU in 2035
I suspect the EU will open a different track for membership, with more gradual admission
Lykke Friis speaks about her thoughts on the future of Europe
Former Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen could become kingmaker
What challenges does Denmark face? ECFR Co-chair Lykke Friis on the election
