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Diplomatic representation in US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Knud-Erik TYGESEN
chancery: 3200 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington, DC 20008
telephone: [1] (202) 234-4300
FAX: [1] (202) 328-1470
consulate(s) general: Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York

US diplomatic representation:
chief of mission: Ambassador Edward E. ELSON
embassy: Dag Hammarskjolds Alle 24, 2100 Copenhagen
mailing address: APO AE 09716, PSC 73
telephone: [45] (31) 42 31 44
FAX: [45] (35) 43 02 23

Flag: red with a white cross that extends to the edges of the
flag; the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side,
and that design element of the Dannebrog (Danish flag) was
subsequently adopted by the other Nordic countries of Finland,
Iceland, Norway, and Sweden

Economy
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Economic overview: This thoroughly modern economy features
high-tech agriculture, up-to-date small-scale and corporate
industry, extensive government welfare measures, comfortable living
standards, and high dependence on foreign trade. Denmark is
self-sufficient in food production. The new center-left coalition
government will concentrate on reducing the persistently high
unemployment rate and the budget deficit as well as following the
previous government's policies of maintaining low inflation and a
current account surplus. In the face of recent international market
pressure on the Danish krone, the coalition has also vowed to
maintain a stable currency. The coalition hopes to lower marginal
income taxes while maintaining overall tax revenues; boost
industrial competitiveness through labor market and tax reforms and
increased research and development funds; and improve welfare
services for the neediest while cutting paperwork and delays. Prime
Minister RASMUSSEN's reforms will focus on adapting Denmark to the
criteria for European integration by 1999; Copenhagen has won from
the European Union (EU) the right to opt out of the European
Monetary Union (EMU) if a national referendum rejects it. Denmark
is, in fact, one of the few EU countrie