The Week That Was, November 21st-27th 2022:
Politics/Economy: After three weeks of negotiations, caretaker prime minister Mette Frederiksen announced there’s a ‘good chance’ of an across the centre coalition – former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen warned that a minority…
MoreNigeria threatens to prosecute Danish sailors
Nigeria’s foreign ministry is exploring the possibility of prosecuting Danish special forces involved in the shoot-out with nine suspected Nigerian pirates in the Gulf of Guinea last November, of whom four were killed, four…
MoreModerates push to join coalition
Former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen is manoeuvring for a role in the next government. Following talks with ‘royal negotiator’ Mette Frederiksen, Thursday, the Moderates leader warned that a minority coalition consisting of…
MoreModerates MP falsified CV
Newly-elected Moderates MP Kristian Klarskov resigned from parliament yesterday after Jyllands Posten revealed ‘serious discrepancies’ in his business CV. In an interview with the newspaper, the now ex-MP admitted that he had never…
More46,000 voters voted ‘blank’
More than 60,000 votes cast at the November 1st election were either blank – neither yes or no – or void. 46,272 voters chose ‘none of the above’ while 12,299 ballots were invalid…
MoreGas leaks video confirms sabotage
The first video footage of the damage to the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea region that’s part of the Danish exclusive economic zone (EEZ) confirms it was coordinated explosions that caused the…
MoreInequality on the rise – the rich get richer
Financial inequality in this country is at an unprecedented level – and, Berlingske reports, it’s the wealthiest who have benefitted most. The so-called Gini coefficient, a measure of the distribution of income across…
MoreActing PM confident of centrist coalition
Caretaker prime minister Mette Frederiksen took a short break from an intense three weeks of government negotiations, Wednesday, to announce there’s a ‘good chance’ of a grand coalition. At a press briefing just…
MoreRed/Greens: ‘Frederiksen has turned her back on left wing’
After being informed yesterday that the Red/ Green Alliance was no longer part of the ongoing government negotiations, the titular head of the far-left party, Mai Villadsen, accused acting prime minister, Mette Frederiksen…
MoreControversy continues in Qatar
The Danish Football Association (DBU) has dismissed reports it could quit FIFA, football’s governing body, after Denmark’s captain Simon Kjaer, along with six other European nations, was banned from wearing a rainbow-coloured armband…
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