LEGO bows to gender pressure
Danish toy giant LEGO is removing gender stereotypes from its products and will no longer market toys at boys and girls distinctly. Follows a study based on the responses of 7000 parents and…
MoreSAS ‘fighting to survive’
The CEO of struggling Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has summoned employee unions to negotiations aimed at cutting costs. Anko van der Werff, a 45-year-old Dutch native who was only appointed last summer, said the company…
MoreLøkke eyes comeback as prime minister
Former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has dismissed speculation that he’s on a revenge mission and claimed he could even be the ‘kingmaker’ who puts his successor as Liberal leader, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, in…
MoreBrewery flip-flops on New Right beer
After initially issuing an apology for printing labels promoting the anti-migrant New Right (Nye Borgerlige) party, Thisted Brewery in northern Jutland bowed to public pressure by issuing a press release, Sunday, stating it…
MoreU.S Defence Secretary confirms strong relationship with Denmark
Following a meeting on the sidlelines of the NATO Defence Ministerial Meeting in Brussels last week between Minister of Defence Trine Bramsen and her U.S. counterpart Lloyd J. Austin, the Pentagon issued a readout Friday…
MoreNo change of status for Ambassador to Turkey
Turkey has provided no official notification that Denmark’s Ambassador to Turkey has had his diplomatic status withdrawn, Berlingske reports. In a written statement Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said that Ambassador Danni Annan has…
MoreCall to save historic Copenhagen townhouses
Many of the Danish capital’s small houses are in danger of demolition unless action is taken, Politiken writes. For well over a century cozy, intimate buildings, often with just a single storey, have…
MoreVirus update: positive tests, hospitalisations on the rise
A total of 1,349 people tested positive for covid-19 over a 24-hour period at the weekend, according to new figures from the State Serum Institute. TV2 reports that the number of positive tests…
MoreThe Week That Was, October 18th – 24th 2021:
Coronavirus/ What happened last week: Covid infections hit a 5-month high as 1,349 people tested positive – the positivity rate of those tested (2.01%) is the highest since January. By the end of…
MoreMinkgate texts reveal “high drama” in PM’s office
Newly-published text messages show “something close to panic” in the Prime Minister’s Office following the decision to slaughter the nation’s entire mink population, TV2 reports. The revelations came after a former top civil…
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