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...Americans, nondriving Sundays are still a novelty; for many Europeans, they already are part of the regular round of life. Over the past month or so, six European countries-Belgium, The Netherlands, West Germany, Switzerland, Italy and just this week, Denmark -have flatly forbidden all Sunday driving, except for cars owned by diplomats, doctors, taximen and a very few others...
...individual initiative. For some Scandinavians, the socialist dream has turned into a nightmare. Last September, voters in Sweden (pop. 8,132,000) nearly threw out their socialist government after 41 years in power, and elections in Norway (pop. 3,930,000) diminished a longtime socialist majority. Last week tiny Denmark (pop. 4,963,000) was on the verge of political crisis as the voters repudiated the ruling Social Democrats and four other established parties. Representatives of five new parties were elected to the Folketing (Parliament), which is now hopelessly fragmented...
Showing their contempt for the politicians who had been running Denmark for the past 28 years, many Danes voted for a party that literally hopes to dismantle the government. Headed by Mogens Glistrup, a maverick millionaire lawyer who boasts that he has paid no income tax for the past six years (TIME, April 9), the Progress Party wants to get rid of large numbers of Denmark's 600,000 civil servants until the country is freed from their "paper fiddling...
Abolish Taxes. Somewhat lightheartedly, Glistrup has suggested that his country could live without its Foreign and Defense ministries. "Denmark cannot defend itself," he says. "Instead of an army, we should substitute an automatic telephone-answering service that, in case of invasion, replies in Russian: 'We surrender.' " He wants to abolish all income taxes for those who make $10,000 or less. "Only fools pay income tax," Glistrup once said. "There is no bigger crime against society than paying income...
...initial reaction from other European governments was favorable, and Denmark invited the leaders to meet in Copenhagen next month. Washington has often complained about the lack of a common European voice. But the U.S. may be disappointed when the Europeans do start to speak as one, particularly if they turn against the U.S., as they undoubtedly would have done on the Middle East...