If Europe fails to rearm itself, "then it's game over", Mette Frederiksen said as she called for defence spending to be the ...

Denmark announced it will leave the so-called informal "Frugal group” within the EU to focus and advocate for rearming Europe ...

The Danish leader argued that Europe needs more funds to bolster its defenses and counter the threat from Russia.

Denmark, Austria and Sweden) who soon before the outbreak of the Covid pandemic blocked the timid attempt of the Commission to raise the EU budget of few decimal points. The Frugal Four remain ...

The EU is still wrestling with the opposition of the so-called frugal four: Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark. The countries’ leaders penned a letter to the Financial Times this week ...

Denmark’s membership of the so-called ‘frugal four’ will have surprised no one. As a net contributor to the EU budget with a long-standing reputation for Euroscepticism – and as a non-eurozone country ...

This spring, a relatively new alliance between Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria made its voice heard, in the form of the “frugal four”. It now carries some weight within the EU, firstly ...

The “Frugal Four” (Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden) presented their own draft for an EU recovery fund in a ‘non-paper’ sent to the EU capitals on Saturday (23 May).

And our four countries — Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark and Austria, known collectively as the “frugal four” — are willing to do more. What we do in the EU is about solidarity ...