Abstract
As the press article from The Copenhagen Post underlines, Denmark is often considered, as a quaint and a bit out-fashioned country, symbolized by the 'hygge', the famous Danish lifestyle. Even if it is a small country, not so well known by the French, it is an example for the social system, which is mentioned by the mass media. At the time of the presidential campaign in France in 2007, the media and the candidates often relied on the Danish policy, in particular about employment, and how Denmark has succeeded to reduce its unemployment by half in few years, passing of more than 12% in 1993 with less than 6% today. French mass media talk about that success as the 'Danish miracle'. One year ago, after the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President of the French Republic, it wanted to implement many reforms. Media presented the Danish model for the French government to follow. What they presented is how to reach their economic dynamism, to have a very flexible workforce without a strict legislation and without problems, security to employees. For several months, reporters talked a lot about the 'flex-security' system, which is doing well but cannot be applied to the French case due to the too important power of the trade unions.
