Denmark has quit the so-called Frugal Four to embrace instead a "more flexible" attitude towards the European Union's seven-year budget, the country's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has said ...

In June, Frederiksen announced that Denmark was quitting the so-called “Frugal Four,” an informal group of EU nations that had pushed to limit common spending, saying that “the most ...

Denmark and Finland are opposing plans for the EU to issue joint debt for purposes beyond defence, weakening Brussels’ plans for more common issuance to respond to crises.