Løkke denounces EU deportation constraints
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said Friday the authorities’ inability to deport EU criminals makes his ‘blood boil’. He told Jyllands-Posten it makes him ‘really, really angry’ to see Romanians come to Denmark…
MoreTroops on the streets ‘un-Danish’
The government’s move to deploy soldiers to help the police fight crime is both controversial and ‘un-Danish’ according to political commentators. The government said Friday it would allow troops to help with border…
MoreDPP: Deport gang boss
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has urged the courts to ‘get tough’ and deport gang leader Shuaib Khan who was remanded in custody for 17 days, Friday, for threatening a police officer. Pakistan-born…
MoreOpposition leader attacks Muslim schools
As further evidence of their new-found, hard-line integration policy the Social Democrats have called for the closure of all Muslim free schools with a majority of non-Danish pupils. Party leader Mette Frederiksen has…
MoreInventor held on suspicion of manslaughter
A Danish inventor has been detained in custody for 24 days while police investigate the disappearance of a Swedish journalist. Peter Madsen, 46, also known as ‘Rocket Madsen’, was arrested on preliminary manslaughter charges…
MoreFaroe Islanders dream of independence
Secessionists in the tiny Faroe Islands are pushing for independence from Denmark. The Faroes won home rule in 1948 after the Danish government rejected the outcome of a referendum in which islanders narrowly…
MoreThe Week That Was, August 7th – August 13th 2017
Politics/Economy Opposition leader Mette Frederiksen kick-started the new political season by inviting the Danish People’s Party (DPP) to form a ‘welfare alliance’ against the government’s proposals to cap public expenditure growth and cut…
MoreGang boss avoids deporation
The alleged leader of the notorious immigrant street gang Loyal to Familia (LTF) has on two occasions been given a conditional deportation order yet remains in Denmark. Pakistan-born Shuaib Khan, originally jailed for…
MoreDR in hijab row
State-run TV network DR has come under for sending an 11-year-old girl to Iran to test the new hijab fashion trend, the headscarf that some Muslim women choose to wear over their heads. In…
MoreCrown Prince ‘regrets’ father’s burial decision
Crown Prince Frederik has said he regrets his father’s decision not to be laid to rest alongside his wife of 50 years, Queen Margrethe, in the Danish monarchy’s traditional resting place, Roskilde Cathedral….
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