{"id":19072,"date":"2025-07-01T13:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=19072"},"modified":"2025-07-01T13:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:20:28","slug":"danish-eu-presidency-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=19072","title":{"rendered":"Danish EU Presidency kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Part of the trio &#8211; Poland, Denmark and Cyprus, Denmark is today taking over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the next 6 months, for the eighth time in its history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Focussing on \u2018A secure Europe\u2019 and a \u2018competitive and green Europe\u2019, the <a href=\"https:\/\/danish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Danish EU Presidency<\/a> will support several ongoing initiatives, including the action plan for implementing the <a href=\"http:\/\/employment-social-affairs.ec.europa.eu\/policies-and-activities\/european-pillar-social-rights-building-fairer-and-more-inclusive-european-union_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">European Pillar of Social Rights<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/employment-social-affairs.ec.europa.eu\/news\/executive-vice-president-minzatu-kicks-exchanges-social-partners-quality-jobs-roadmap-2025-04-16_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Quality Jobs Roadmap<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/strategy-and-policy\/policies\/justice-and-fundamental-rights\/gender-equality\/gender-equality-strategy_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EU Gender Equality Strategy<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/eli\/dir\/2024\/1385\/oj\/eng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence<\/a>, supporting the future of ageing and long-term care, and developing new strategies for quality, accessibility, and improved working conditions. In terms of health, the Danish EU Presidency will focus on strengthening EU preparedness and boost the resilience of the healthcare system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">All these are key topics for the nursing profession, and high on EFN policy agenda. As such, the EFN will follow closely these developments over the next 6 months, and make sure that nurses\u2019 voice is heard and taken into account in the policies\u2019 developments that affect Europe\u2019s healthcare systems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">You can read more about Denmark\u2019s priorities for the EU Presidency <a href=\"https:\/\/danish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/programme-for-the-danish-eu-presidency\/programme-of-the-danish-eu-presidency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the trio &#8211; Poland, Denmark and Cyprus, Denmark&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19459,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=19459","url_meta":{"origin":19072,"position":0},"title":"The Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU","author":"efn efn","date":"January 5, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"On 1st January 2026, the Republic of Cyprus has assumed the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, until June 2026. 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