World record set at Distortion festival
A record 817 people took part in a street painting last night at the Distortion party on Nørrebro, Copenhagen. This broke the previous German-held record, and was confirmed on site by a representative…
MoreMinister implicated in stateless scandal
The then Integration Minister, Bertel Haarder, (V), was already warned back in 2003 that he was breaking internationally agreed conventions, the newspaper Information today alleged. The newspaper has been shown advice given to…
MoreDanish cucumber producers hit by E coli crisis
The deepening food poisoning crisis in Germany is having a catastrophic effect on Danish farmers. Even though Danish cucumbers and other salad products have been tested and cleared of any contamination by the…
MoreSocial Democrats will separate Church and State
A shake-up in the relations between Church and State seems likely whoever wins the coming election. That’s the verdict of the press as the various parties have put forward their proposals on this…
MoreLift-off finally, maybe
The Danish space rocket will finally reach for the heavens later today, according to rocket designer Kristian von Bengtson. After last year’s failed launch of the privately built Heat-1X Tycho Brahe, there have…
MoreFogh looks ahead to post-Gaddafi Libya
The international community should prioritise planning what to do when the Gaddafi regime falls, argues Nato General Secretary, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Judging the end of the regime to be no longer a question…
MoreCopenhagen street party chaos
Up to 100,000 revellers partied in central Copenhagen on Wednesday night at the opening of this year’s Distortion dance festival. But many capital residents are asking themselves if the street parties have simply…
MoreDanish involvement in major heroin seizure in Afghanistan
A Danish police team was centrally involved in a headline drugs capture, reported Jyllands-Posten this week . Working closely with the Afghani police force and British soldiers, the training team confiscated some 27kg…
MoreEconomists support critique of colleagues in banking sector
The eminent economists, Torben Andersen and Christen Sørensen, have backed up the Social Democrats’, (S), allegations of political bias by economists in the banking sector. Tax spokesman, Nick Hækkerup, had suggested that economists…
MoreLøkke: What recession?
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen remains upbeat about the economy, despite new GDP figures showing that Denmark is now officially in a recession. After giving what commentators described as his most optimistic speech…
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