Happy Denmark casts an anxious vote

This Week Those Books is chock-full of crucial context — from fiction and non-fiction — to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle.

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The Big Story:

Denmark votes in a snap general election, in the shadow of Donald Trump’s ongoing war on Iran and with its own continuing nightmare about the US president’s designs on Greenland.

Surely all of this tension must be affecting the generally joyful nature of Denmark, consistently ranked in the top three on the World Happiness Report?¹

• The Danish prime minister has framed the vote as a “decisive election” as Danes seek to define their relationship with the US.
• The election could also endorse the government’s move to break with Denmark’s nearly 70-year-old policy prohibiting nuclear weapons on its soil, as well as bringing long-taboo nuclear power into its energy mix.

This Week’s Books:

• Why Danish politics matters…to everyone.
• A bestseller revolving around Denmark-Greenland links.
• The search for examples of happiness in different countries.

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Originally published on Medium