
{"id":11115,"date":"2013-10-16T04:29:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T02:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=11115\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T23:52:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T23:52:55","slug":"liberal-leader-to-release-travel-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/liberal-leader-to-release-travel-expenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal leader to release travel expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen has bowed to pressure and will voluntarily release details of his travel expenditure in connection with foreign trips taken as chair of the Global Green Growth Institute, GGGI. This is according to Seven59.dk.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal leader posted a message on Facebook, Tuesday, stating that he\u2019s now prepared to make all invoices, chits, flight costs and hotel expenses available to the public at a press conference on Sunday in Copenhagen, which will also be attended by Director-General of the GGGI, Howard Bamsey.<\/p>\n<p>All requests to see the paperwork had previously been rejected by Liberal Party leadership who claimed it was against GGGI&#8217;s own internal rules.<\/p>\n<h2>Over DKK 1 million<\/h2>\n<p>Mr L\u00f8kke Rasmussen, who&#8217;s consistently maintained that he&#8217;s abided by all GGGI guidelines, says:<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;There is, naturally, a great deal of interest in the activities I carry out for GGGI. I have nothing to hide but I needed to know the answers myself before I could provide them. 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