Parties condemn Israel’s Jewish state move
A number of parties have called on the government to condemn Israel if the Jewish national state bill introduced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is passed. Minister for Foreign Affairs Martin Lidegaard called…
MoreEU: Danish companies need to invest more as economic growth remains weak
Denmark is still suffering from a lack of investment after the crisis even though companies are sitting on a mountain of cash. That’s the view of EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in his…
MoreCountdown in Greenland – Most important election for 35 years
Greenlanders are preparing for Friday’s election, ‘a clear choice between two fundamentally diverse paths’ according to external lecturer Lars Hovbakke Sørensen of Copenhagen University in an editorial in Berlingske today. He writes: Friday’s…
MoreDenmark continues to put pressure on Turkey
The Lars Hedegaard affair remains a bone of contention tension between Denmark and Turkey as the Danish government continues to push for answers as to what happened to the man suspected of attempting to…
MoreMinistry issues Saudi travel warning
The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has urged Danes stationed in Saudi Arabia to exercise extra caution after an Arla employee was shot last week as he left work in the capital of Riyadh. Head…
MoreEurosceptics reluctant to vote against Juncker
Danish MEPs in Brussels have become involved in a battle of words about the upcoming vote of confidence in newly appointed President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, who’s under pressure over generous tax…
MoreDPP: Asylum seekers have no right to complain
Although up to 100 asylum seekers are being forced to sleep together in a gymnasium in Jutland they have no right to complain, says Danish People’s Party’s immigration spokesman Martin Henriksen who called…
MoreNothing to stop ban on religious headwear says justice minister
There is nothing within Danish law to prevent a ban on Muslim women wearing the niqab, burka, or other forms of face-covering religious headwear in public. Previous calls to ban the burka have…
MoreStop discrimination against refugees say Social Democrats
Discrimination against certain groups of refugees is a ‘poor signal to send’, the Social Democrats’ integration spokeswoman Mette Reissmann said yesterday in response to a report that some local authorities have specifically asked…
MoreForeign policy expert is new ‘hofmarskal’
Mr Michael Ehrenreich, head of the Foreign Policy Society, has been appointed Lord Chamberlain (Hofmarskal) to the Royal Court. Mr Ehenreich is well-known to 7:59 subscribers after his most informative foreign policy briefing…
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