Denmark faces significant challenges requiring responsible reforms and stable frameworks that blend free choices and market-based solutions to strengthen both the economy and social cohesion. These challenges include labor shortages, welfare development needs, climate change, and increasing global uncertainty.

A crucial experience in Danish politics is that lasting solutions to welfare state reforms have emerged from collaborations where center-right parties set the direction, and the Social Democrats (and sometimes the Socialist People’s Party) ensured broad ownership. This collaborative approach highlights the importance of combining bourgeois and liberal solutions with a willingness to cooperate across the political center.

As the blue parties convene in Fredericia, the need for this type of cross-political cooperation is paramount to address the country’s pressing issues.