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...Denmark symbolizes the uneasy position of most of the Outer Seven nations and their fundamental long-range desire to join the Common Market proper. Much of Denmark's food exports go to Common Market countries, 25% to Germany. (As a whole, the Outer Seven nations trade more with the twice-as-large Common Market than with each other...
While British farmers cried out in dismay, their government promised to guarantee a market for Danish bacon, blue cheese and other dairy products to offset Denmark's loss in joining the Outer Seven. This gesture will cost Britain nearly $20 million a year in tariff revenue alone...
Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. sympathetic to the cause of freer trade everywhere, promised Denmark not to discriminate against it for joining the Outer Seven. Germany hopes in time to put pressure on France to widen the Common Market club. But as Erhard points out, the Outer Seven is "dangerous medicine," even though "chances are good that it will work." And, as one of Erhard's aides adds: "Separate groups tend to form habits, generate loyalties, encourage parochial thinking. On the other hand, they can produce creative friction...
...grievance man.'' Founded in Sweden 150 years ago in frank imitation of the ancient Roman 'tribunes of the people," whose job it was to watch the administration of justice and give assistance to citizens who were treated harshly, it has since spread to Finland and Denmark, is likely to be adopted this fall by Norway...
Speaking over BBC radio at the invitation of British M.P.s, Denmark's Ombudsman Dr. Stephan Hurwitz outlined his duties. Elected by Parliament (in Hurwitz' case, unanimously), the ombudsman must be a lawyer; he is above party, has a legal staff and annual budget, and is the highest-salaried man in the Danish government. On receiving a complaint from a citizen, or on his own initiative, Dr. Hurwitz can investigate any civil or military establishment. The courts remain outside the ombudsman's control, but he is empowered to look into the affairs of state officials, from Cabinet ministers...