Queen Margrethe's New Years Speeches

[Josefine]

31-12-1972

31-12-1973

31.12.1974

31.12.1975

31.12.1976

31.12.1977

31-12-1978

31-12-1979

31.12.1980

I can´t find any pictur from 1981

31.12.1982

[Josefine]

31-12-1983

31-12-1984

31-12-1985

31-12-1986

31-12-1987

31-12-1988

31-12-1989

31-12-1990

31-12-1991

31.12.1992

[Josefine]

31.12.1993

31-12-1994

31-12-1994

31.12.1995

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31-12-1997

31-12-1998

31.12.1999

31-12-2000

31-12-2001

31.12.2002

[paulette]

thanks for the pictures..Its nice to see such a wise queen yet very elegant and beautiful. Her beauty never fades..

iT's my first time to know that Queen Margrethe wears glasses in the past. I really thought its just this later years.Her glasses were also big and round. But she was still gorgeous.

[Josefine]

I´m glad you liked them,

[H.M. Margrethe]

Originally posted by Josefine@Sep 1st, 2003 - 12:29 pm
31-12-2000

Im sorry to say but ther is somthing rong withe the pic´s from 31-12-2000.
Same queen same room but diffrent dress ???
why ??

[sara1981]

like as Britain Queen Elizabeth 2 had speeches christmas messages but HM Queen Marthages had new years speeches makes me looks different years!

Sara Boyce

[H.M. Margrethe]

Originally posted by sara1981@Dec 23rd, 2003 - 9:10 pm
like as Britain Queen Elizabeth 2 had speeches christmas messages but HM Queen Marthages had new years speeches makes me looks different years!

Sara Boyce

I´m sorry what ???
I don´t understand what you meen with :like as Britain Queen Elizabeth 2 had speeches christmas messages but HM Queen Marthages had new years speeches makes me looks different years! ????
It has noting to do with my first question to Josephine.
My question was : why is ther 2 diffrents pic of HM Queen Margrethe 31-12-2000?
I do know that the 2 queens are speaking to the peabol Elizabeth on Christmasday and Margrethe on newyears evning.

[MoonlightRhapsody]

1975 was a good look for her...but when I saw the year with the huge glasses, I went :o Ahhhhh!

[Josefine]

31.12.2003

[Josefine]

Originally posted by H.M. Margrethe+Dec 31st, 2003 - 3:01 pm--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (H.M. Margrethe @ Dec 31st, 2003 - 3:01 pm)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-sara1981@Dec 23rd, 2003 - 9:10 pm
like as Britain Queen Elizabeth 2 had speeches christmas messages but HM Queen Marthages had new years speeches makes me looks different years!

Sara Boyce

I´m sorry what ???
I don´t understand what you meen with :like as Britain Queen Elizabeth 2 had speeches christmas messages but HM Queen Marthages had new years speeches makes me looks different years! ????
It has noting to do with my first question to Josephine.
My question was : why is ther 2 diffrents pic of HM Queen Margrethe 31-12-2000?
I do know that the 2 queens are speaking to the peabol Elizabeth on Christmasday and Margrethe on newyears evning. [/b][/quote]
I must have posted 2000 instead of 2001, I have fixed it now

[Alexandria]

Polfoto 31-12-2003 Dronning Margrethe opfordrede i sin nytårstale befolkningen til at tale sammen og lyt til hinanden, så diskussionerne ikke bliver til enetaler mellem døve.

[paulette]

nice outfit. I loved her earrings! It fits with the whole attire. What I really adore with the Queen is that she dresses the way she wants it to be. She is fond of color combination. :) She is very creative. Fabulous outfit!!!

I would suggest that she would look for another location in Amalienborg Palace wherein she would deliver her New Year's Speech. She always stays at that table through the years. I mean there are a lot of nice locations inside the palace itself so it would look good. But nevertheless, she still looks great.

[paulette]

In her 2004 New Year's address, Queen Margrethe spoke of the need for human contact in the age of e-mail and text messaging. "Most people have for more to say for themselves than is apparent... A lot of tension in modern society is due precisely to the conversations that never take place," the queen said.

[paulette]

Strong euro, coming expansion: European leaders urge hard work in New Year

01 January 2004

Buoyed by a strong euro and mindful of EU expansion, Europe's leaders used their New Year's messages to urge their peoples to work hard to meet the challenge of ensuring economic renewal and stability, in an uncertain and increasingly interconnected world.

Others, notably EU hopefuls from the former Soviet bloc, urged citizens to bury their troubled past and consolidate democratic gains to secure a firm place in an enlarged European Union.

French President Jacques Chirac, whose country like others on the continent has been thumped by an economic downtown, said fighting France's high, 9.6 percent unemployment rate would be a key priority for 2004.

With growth slowly returning, he said "the challenge for 2004 is to make the best advantage of this growth, with one priority: employment."

"To move onto a greater speed, we need to find new ways of taking action," he said.

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder meanwhile warned that the way to renewed prosperity would "mean restrictions or doing without", as the country overhauls its generous welfare state and implements reforms.

These include advancing tax cuts to kick-start the economy and what he called "more self-responsibility" to avoid abuses of subsidized health care.

"Don't forget that it is largely in your hands how the Germany economy will perform," he said.

Germany, which has Europe's biggest economy, "will not be the only country to benefit by us acting decisively to modernize. The whole of Europe is looking at our efforts in hope," the chancellor said.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose country is not part of the eurozone and has been spared the economic downturn across the Channel, warned that the "stability should never be taken for granted."

"Britain is now seeing its seventh year of growth under this government.

"We have not gone into recession like many of our competitors and now we are well-placed to grow faster in the years ahead," he said, but "none of this has happened by accident but because of the hard choices that made it possible."

"Boom and bust, economic uncertainty ... used to be the British disease. We have cured that disease," Blair said, adding: "In 2004 we will do all we can to sustain and build on our economic strength."

In Moscow, President Vladimir Putin was also upbeat, avoiding specifics but telling Russians they had good reason to look forward to 2004.

"We had obvious achievements, both in economic and social life. And we have every reason to call the now past year a success," said a somber Putin who will seek re-election to a second term in March.

"We have had complications and mistakes, many problems were left unresolved. But we searched and found necessary decisions together, and all we achieved was not just a gift of fate, but the result of hard work," the Russian president said.

A human note came from Denmark, where Queen Margrethe II urged Danes "not to forget human contact, to devote time to each other, to speak together."

"Lots of things happened (in 2003) to cause turmoil, like the war in Iraq and domestic issues that triggered strained debate," she said, but "it is important to listen to one another, to respect the points of view."

In eastern Europe, Romania's President Ion Iliescu urged citizens "not to slow down the rhythm of reforms" in 2004, "a decisive" year when Bucharest joins NATO and completes talks for EU membership in 2007.

"We have linked our future to that of Europe and the success of European reunification is vital for us," he said, urging Romanians to fight harder against poverty and corruption.

In the Balkans, still feeling fallout of the wars of the 1990s that broke up Yugoslavia, leaders set their sights clearly on EU membership.

President Svetozar Marovic of Serbia-Montenegro, alluding to the anti-Western, ultra-nationalist surge in last week's elections in Serbia, stressed that "political disagreements, part of every democratic society, should not slown down our membership of the European Union."

President Stipe Mesic of Croatia, which hopes to join the EU in 2007, vowed that a similar nationalist advance in November elections would not veer Zagreb off its path.

"I am convinced that all those who are active in Croatia's politics ... and regardless of their party, are sharing the same strategic goals ... joining the EU and NATO."

Similarly, Dragan Covic, chairman of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, said, "we should believe and hope that in the coming year we are to make yet another step on our path toward EU and NATO."

In former Soviet republics, such as Azerbaijan and Georgia, leaders voiced hope for unity to end secessionist struggles that emerged after the collapse of communism.

President Emomali Rakhmonov of Tajikistan, the poorest of Central Asian states that fought a civil war in the 1990s, hoped "the need to strengthen national unity and stability would prevail in all levels of society."

Ukraine's controversial President Leonid Kuchma, who has been linked to scandals and accused of muffling free press, meanwhile, said he hoped to see Ukraine, the former Soviet bread basket "become a regional leader and a country ... feeding the entire world."

[Josefine]

wonder what she will look like for new year 2004

[bct88]

In 2000, she wore the same outfit she wore 15 years earlier in 1985. It is interesting to see a Queen who recycles her wardrobe, and who recycles it after a long period of time. :)