The USA has wide-reaching plans for a military buildup in the Arctic and is ready to invest millions of dollars to upgrade its ageing Thule Air Force Base in Northern Greenland. A heavily…

Denmark and Great Britain have signed a deal to develop a new type of warship. According to UK media reports, the British Royal Navy has ordered five frigates based on the Danish Navy’s…

The first case of monkeypox has been reported in this country. Health Minister Magnus Heunicke confirmed yesterday that an adult male had returned from a trip to Spain carrying the infection. The Minister…

On the day that the first case of monkey pox was reported in this country, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned that the coronavirus could start to spread again this Autumn. In a speech…

Former Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has accused Germany of ‘foot dragging’ in its response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt the ex-NATO secretary-general, a former…

Public support for nuclear power is on the rise for the first time in nearly 50 years. Since the 1970s, Danes have been fiercely opposed to any type of nuclear energy but the…

Faced with the highest rate of inflation for 38 years and fast-rising energy prices, many Danish consumers are cutting back. A new report by the Boston Consulting Group shows 26% of the population…

Increasing pessimism about the economy is reflected in the latest Consumer Confidence Index (CCI), which has fallen to -22.4, the lowest ever recorded – in 2006, at the start of the financial crisis,…

Denmark is opening a new embassy in Georgia as part of the recently agreed defence bill in which money was also appropriated to strengthen diplomacy in countries surrounding Ukraine. Danish embassies in the…

A Danish national has been sentenced to death by hanging in Nigeria. A Lagos court found Peter Nielsen,54, guilty killing his Nigerian wife and their three-year-old daughter. The man denied the charge of…