Per Nyholm
Danish columnist and cultural journalist, Per Nyholm (b. 1943), currently lives in Rome and Vienna. From 1986 to 2005, he was the Central European and Balkan correspondent for the daily Jyllands-Posten.
Updated: 9 November 2010
In general, Western Europeans, and the Danes in particular, cling to negative stereotypes of fellow EU citizens fromthe former Eastern bloc. Hungary and Poland, however, at the helm of Europe in 2011 are likelier to make a bigger splash than provincial Denmark when it takes over the EU presidency in 2012.