Denmark has quit the so-called Frugal Four to embrace instead a "more flexible" attitude towards the European Union's seven-year budget, the country's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen ...

Copenhagen will not "stand in a corner” with frugal EU countries on other controversial issues such as common debt during its ...

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Tuesday she is ready to abandon her country's traditionally thrifty stance on the EU budget in the face of the threat posed by Russia. “Last time we had ...

The Frugal Four was an informal group with the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden and Denmark during the bloc’s 2020 budget talks. The fiscally conservative coalition, sometimes joined by Finland ...

Denmark, Austria and Sweden) who soon before the outbreak of the Covid pandemic blocked the timid attempt of the Commission to raise the EU budget of few decimal points. The Frugal Four remain ...

The EU is still wrestling with the opposition of the so-called frugal four: Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark. The countries’ leaders penned a letter to the Financial Times this week ...

This spring, a relatively new alliance between Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria made its voice heard, in the form of the “frugal four”. It now carries some weight within the EU, firstly ...

The "Frugal Four" (Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden) presented their own draft for an EU recovery fund in a 'non-paper' sent to the EU capitals on Saturday (23 May). The most important ...

Denmark, Austria, Sweden and the Netherlands dug in their heels over the next European Union budget, insisting it cannot top 1% of economic output, to leave the EU no closer to a deal on Friday ...

Denmark has quit the so-called Frugal Four to embrace instead a "more flexible" attitude towards the European Union's seven-year budget, the country's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has said, ...