Integration Ministry accepts defeat on Roma deportations
14 Roma people who were thrown out of Denmark last year and banned from entering the country for two years have had their deportation orders annulled. In a letter to the court-appointed lawyers…
More2020 negotiations get underway
Finance Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen’s initial negotiations with the Social Democrats about the government’s 2020 reform package broke down, Friday, but party leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt agreed to a second round of talks. After…
MoreLocal authorities challenge government bureaucracy
Six of Denmark’s biggest local authorities are heading for a showdown with the government about the mountain of paperwork surrounding the unemployed. They claim that the rules for finding state-funded jobs or re-training…
MoreWonderful Copenhagen
Nine out of ten Copenhagen like their city – but they’d like it be little ‘greener’. A new ‘City Life’ survey by Copenhagen Council survey shows that residents of the capital enjoy the…
MoreWe need planes says Fogh – not from us says Lene E.
The bombing raids in Libya will continue for as long as necessary, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told the Foreign Ministers of 28 NATO countries in Brussels yesterday, repeating at the same…
MoreFighter jet deal in danger?
Denmark’s biggest and most expensive purchase of military hardware ever – the DKK30-40 bn deal to buy a new fleet of fighter jets to replace the Air Force’s ageing fleet of F-16’s –…
MoreSøren ‘foot in mouth’ Pind
Minister of Integration Søren Pind’s reputation for ‘shooting from the hip’ surfaced again yesterday when he called the Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner, Thomas Hammarberg, an ‘idiot’ and ‘a waste of space’….
MoreMohammed illustrator on trial in Jordan
A Jordanian court is ready to start a trial against Mohammed illustrator Kurt Westergaard. Zakary Sheik, spokesman for a local Amman media group that’s suing Mr Westergaard for blasphemy, said the illustrator has…
MoreGovernment ignores Dalai Lama
Neither Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen nor Minister of Foreign Affairs Lene Espersen have any plans to meet the Dalai Lama during his visit to Denmark next week. In a formal response to…
MoreVideo surveillance of Nørrebro
Large parts of the inner city district of Nørrebro are to be placed under constant video surveillance. In response to safety concerns from local residents and the recent spate of gang-related shootings, Copenhagen…
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