The article examines the ideological and political-economic impact of the strategies of the Danish Prime Ministers Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Lars Løkke Rasmussen as leaders of the liberal/conservative coalition governments 2001-2011.

After home rule in 1979 Greenland gradually takes over expenditure of general government from Denmark during the 1980ies. Step by step Denmark gives a subsidy to Greenland covering what were the Danish expenditures. Nearly the entire subsidy comes in four lumps, 1980, 1985, 1987 and 1992....