Copenhagen - Denmark's new prime minister used his debut speech to parliament on Tuesday to warn that the global economic crisis "overshadows everything.""One task overshadows everything: the crisis," Lokke Rasmussen, 44, said in his speech, adding he "did not know how deep or long" the downturn would last.
Rasmussen, who took over from his namesake (but no relation) Anders Forgh Rasumussen after the latter left to become NATO secretary-general, insisted that Denmark could use its fiscal surplus to cope with the crisis.