Michael de Laine

By Michael de Laine, The Copenhagen Voice, 21 November 2009

Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has listed 10 targets to be reached by 2020.

In the year 2020, Denmark:

• shall be among the ten richest countries in the woerld measured in terms of gross national product per capita
• shall be among the three countries in the world with the highest number of growth entrepreneurs
• shall have a labour force among the ten largest in the world as a share of population
• shall have schoolchildren among the top five in the world in reading, mathematics and natural sciences, measured by the PISA studies, and in English, compared with other countries where English is not the mother tongue
• shall have at least one university among the top twn in Europe, as ranked by Times Higher Education
• shall have an average life expectancy among the ten highest in the world
• shall be among the three most energy-efficient countries in the world and among the three countries that increase their share of renewable energy most in the period
• shall among the best EU members in integrating non-western immigrants and their succesors in the labour market
• shall be a safe country, where the probability of being the victim of crime shall be among the lowest in Europe
• shall have an economy that continues to be among the five strongest in the world, measured by a weighted average of unemployment, public deficit, inflation, stability of prices and balance of payments deficit