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In her blog post “Is Something Rotten in the State of Denmark?”, Helga Molbæk-Steensig analyses the making of the Copenhagen Declaration; the most important outcome of the Danish chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. Molbæk-Steensig agrees with most commentators that the declaration does not reflect the Danish government’s “strong discourse of sovereignty and democratic deficit in the Danish debate“. We certainly agree on this point, but we cannot agree with Molbæk-Steensig when she claims that we – Denmark’s national human rights institution – played a passive, or even negative, role during the making of the declaration. We especially disagree when Molbæk-Steensig implies that we somehow legitimise a far-right narrative designed to limit the system of human rights protection in Europe or subscribe to a reductionist concept of democracy. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Christoffersen, Jonas Copenhagen Declaration European Convention of Human Rights 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-danish-institute-for-human-rights-and-the-copenhagen-declaration-a-reply-to-helga-molbaek-steensig/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20180504-191301 180504 10.17176/20180504-191301 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)