#DENMARK: Pro-Environment "Alternative Party" Spokeswoman Labeled "Carbon Pig" And Hypocrite For Frequent International Flights

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The flying habits of members of Danish environmentalist party, "The Alternative," has come under fire by opposition parties. The Alternative positions itself as Denmark’s "greenest" party, even encouraging Danes to cut down on meat consumption and avoiding flying because of the carbon emissions of air travel.

But Alternative's political spokeswoman Carolina Magdalene Maier was the subject of scrutiny after the right-wing Free Speech Blog called her "parliament’s biggest carbon pig," and documented her many travels. The blog revealed she took 20 flights between November 2015 and October 2018 to 13 different countries.

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#DENMARK: 7 Parties Seek To Block EuroSkeptics By Banning "Denexit" Referendum

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Three of Denmark's left-leaning political parties hope to unite all seven of the nation's pro-EU parties to prevent the euro-skeptic populists and Greens from ever holding a Brexit-style referendum in Denmark. Mainly, they want to prevent the Danish People's Party from forcing a party to agree to one as a condition for a coalition in the next election. The People's Party is riding high in the polls. The push is being led by Morten Østergaard, leader of the Social Liberal Party

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Pictured: Morten Østergaard

#DENMARK: Facebook Temporarily Bans Danish MP Over Two Nude Photos

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Danish MP Uffe Elbæk was temporarily banned from Facebook for violating the social media giant's nudity policy. Elbæk, the leader of The Alternative, said on Monday that he was banned for posting two photos that contained nudity. One was from Copenhagen's Culture Night while the other was a famous photo from 1969 that shows Danish artist Lene Adler Petersen walking nude through the Copenhagen Stock Exchange carrying a cross.