For the first time in history, SSV (the Danish minority party) becomes the largest party in Flensburg city council, after it received 25% of the votes. Why? Germans want the Danish model of welfare.
- SSV was founded in 1948 to represent the interests of the Danish and Frisian minorities in Germany.
- Among their victories over the years you can find: German state subsidies for Danish schools; Promotion of the North Frisian language and other ideas based on laws already existing in Denmark.
