In the afternoon, the President will hold a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt of Denmark in the Oval Office.

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Perhaps it was apt that the pithiest election-night verdict was delivered by a Danish politician, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, leader of that country's Social Democratic party.

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Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt defended the plan to introduce longer hours in school, and said her government was not yet prepared to intervene in the dispute.

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