Well, the Danish government is still operating on what is for all intents and purposes the previous government's appropriations bill. With elections medio September, you just don't get to add nine- or ten-figure budget items to that year's appropriations. Particularly not when you have to coalition with an ALDE party that is thoroughly infested with quackonomists.

The interesting fight will be whether next year's budget expands the scope of the project, or the ALDE nutters manage to kill it in their quest for budgetary religious purity.

- Jake

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