Podcast: From Ljubljana to Copenhagen: A dramatic week at the polls

Published on 27/03/2026 - 9:00 GMT+1

During a important electoral week for 2 European Union (EU) subordinate states, Slovenia and Denmark, Brussels, My Love? sits down with Petros Fassoulas, caput wide of the European Movement International, to perceive his instrumentality connected these elections and research what they person successful common.

Denmark’s drawback parliamentary elections

Danes went to the polls connected Tuesday, successful a snap election called by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen successful February.

The predetermination ended successful an inconclusive result, leaving Frederiksen’s aboriginal unclear. Her party, the Social Democrats, won 21.8% of the vote, their lowest stock successful 120 years.

However, according to Fassoulas, the effect shouldn’t beryllium viewed excessively negatively, considering that since her enactment mislaid the mayorship of Copenhagen successful 2025, predictions for her and her enactment had been rather dire.

“The information that she managed to travel retired of this election, possibly not with the effect she wanted, but inactive successful power of her ain fate, capable to possibly support her job, that successful itself is rather an flight that conscionable a fewer months agone wasn’t connected the cards”.

Neither the near bloc nor the close bloc managed to triumph the bulk successful parliament, leaving the moderates, led by Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, arsenic the kingmaker of the election.

Slovenia’s parliamentary elections

Last Sunday, Slovenes voted successful parliamentary elections.

The centre-left Freedom Movement led by Prime Minister Robert Golob won the predetermination successful a precise choky contention with the right-wing Slovenian Democratic Party led by Janez Janša.

As Fassoulas explained, the 2 blocs of the statement reported 2 antithetic views of the world. “On the 1 side, you had a wide pro-European person who believes successful societal reforms, and he's precise overmuch unfastened successful his attack to assorted issues,” helium said. “On the different hand, you had a person who is simply a populist, a large protagonist of Donald Trump.”

The EU is watching these elections closely. According to Fassoulas, determination was a fearfulness that if Janez Janša had won, helium would person sided with Robert Fico and Viktor Orban, creating adjacent much fragmentation successful the EU.

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