21 Facts About Ritt Bjerregaard

Ritt Bjerregaard was a Danish politician who was a member of the Danish Social Democrats, and was Lord Mayor of Copenhagen from 1 January 2006 to 2010.

Ritt Bjerregaard was European Commissioner for the Environment from 1994 to 1999 and Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries in the Cabinet of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen IV from 2000 to 2001.

Ritt Bjerregaard was a member of the Danish parliament from 21 September 1971 to 22 January 1995 and from 20 November 2001 until 8 February 2005.

On 5 November 1975, Ritt Bjerregaard hired an external chancellor for Roskilde University.

Ritt Bjerregaard was the European Commissioner for Environment, Nuclear Safety and Civil Protection in the Santer Commission from 1995 to 1999, representing Denmark.

Ritt Bjerregaard has attended Trilateral Commission meetings in 1992,1998 and 2002.

Ritt Bjerregaard was vice-president of both OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly and Socialist International Women from 1992 to 1994.

Four days after Ritt Bjerregaard was appointed Minister of Food in February 2000, the first case of mad cow disease, a dangerous brain disease, occurred.

Ritt Bjerregaard won the election for Lord Mayor on the Copenhagen City Council for the Social Democrats on 16 November 2005, a position she acquired through a high number of personal votes.

At the summit, Ritt Bjerregaard wished to discuss what big cities could do to lower CO2-emissions.

Ritt Bjerregaard returned to politics again soon hereafter in 1979 as social minister.

Ritt Bjerregaard was then forced to step down as parliamentary group leader of the Social Democrats.

On 11 July 2007, Ritt Bjerregaard claimed she never promised Copenhageners would get 5,000 cheap dwellings within five years, but merely that she would work for that aim.

Ritt Bjerregaard claimed many unexpected and legal obstacles had come about, and that the government obstructed the issue.

Ritt Bjerregaard expected that the 5,000 flats would be ready within seven to ten years.

Ritt Bjerregaard is the most autocratic, absolutist, centralist and undemocratic of all.

In return, Ritt Bjerregaard claimed that Larsen-Jensen "suffered personal problems" which could not be commented on in public.

Ritt Bjerregaard is regarded as one of the four most influential Social Democrats from the so-called golden generation, the others being Mogens Lykketoft, Svend Auken and Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.

Ritt Bjerregaard was hospitalized several times because of narrow and unhealthy conditions, until the family acquired an allotment.

Ritt Bjerregaard finished her exam from Christianshavn Gymnasium in 1958 and became a modern side student from Statens Kursus til Studentereksamen in 1966.

Ritt Bjerregaard died of cancer at her home in Copenhagen on 21 January 2023, at the age of 81.