People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed.

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.

I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.

We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.

Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.

So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.