Summer holiday boost for centre-left
Opposition politicians will head off on vacation this week knowing that when they return it could be a matter of months before they’re asked to form a government. A new Voxmeter poll for…
MoreCaviar and vodka with Soviet spies – no problem, says former minister
Uffe Ellemann Jensen, Denmark’s Minister of Foreign Affairs during the meltdown of the Soviet Union in the late 1980’s, has rejected that the Social Democrats acted like lapdogs for the Soviet Union. In…
MoreNew York Times: ‘Denmark leads nationalist challenge’
The prestigious New York Times has joined in the Danish border control debate. Although Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen claimed last week that it was ‘narcissistic’ of Danes to believe that the rest…
MoreDPP demands new check on German customs control
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has urged the government to run a check on Germany’s own border control after reports that the German customs authorities are in the process of building a customs…
MoreGerman Ambassador – strong words are OK
The warm relationship between Denmark and Germany hasn’t suffered because of the heated debate about border control. Germany’s Ambassador to Denmark, Christoph Jessen, who has come under personal attack from Danish People’s Party…
MoreNo plan B says SPP leader – and zere’s nussing wrong wiz my Englis
With all opinion polls indicating a comfortable victory for the opposition at this year’s election, Socialist People’s Party (SPP) leader Villy Søvndal says he’s confident the left will win but there’s no plan…
MoreIsrael threatens to stop flights
Israel has threatened to stop all flights between Copenhagen and Tel Aviv. According to the Israeli paper Haaretz, all air traffic between the two cites will be shut down unless the Danish authorities…
MoreGreen passenger duty not that green
The opposition has expressed doubts about the effectiveness of its own plan to impose a climate duty on on all airline passengers. The Social Democrats, Socialist People’s Party, and Social Liberals have proposed…
MoreFish dumping threatens ecosystem
Danish fishermen are dumping dead fish back into the sea in such great amounts that, according to scientists and the authorities, it’s threatening fish stocks and challenging the ocean’s ecosystem. Dumping is a…
MoreSlap on the wrist for Royal Family
The government will in the future be consulted about who receives royal favours, in the wake of the embarrassing Bahrain affair when HM Queen Margerthe, on an official visit to the desert state,…
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