Interim Environment Minister
Trade & Investment Minister Pia Olsen Dyhr will assume the role of interim Minister for the Environment on May 1st, replacing Ida Auken who’s taking maternity leave until the 31st of July. It’s…
MoreRoyal deficit
High-profile events to celebrate Queen Margrethe’s 40th jubilee, an extensive state visit from China, and a trip to the Olympic Games in London led to a DKK1.7m loss for the Danish royal family…
MoreFrom bank robber to politician
A convicted bank robber in Denmark could soon be an MP in Iceland. Sindri Daði Rafnsson, who was sentenced to six years in prison in this country 1999 for robbing a bank in…
MoreSocial Democrats bombed back to 1898
The Social Democrats’ poll numbers continue to sink. Just 14.4 per cent of the electorate would vote for the ruling party if an election was held today, a YouGov poll for free daily…
MoreSøvndal’s concern about Syria’s chemical weapons
At a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels, Tuesday, Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal said the international society has to be ready to secure Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons if, and when, the regime…
MorePM calls for new negotiations in teacher dispute
Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has urged the two warring parties in the teacher dispute, KL, (The National Association of Local Authorities in Denmark), and DTU (The Danish Union of Teachers) to return to…
MoreTeacher lockout provides cash bonus for local authorities
The teacher lockout has providing a multi-billion cash windfall for local authorities, who are saving DKK71m every single day that teachers don’t go to work. After 16 days of lockout it’s estimated that…
MoreRed/Greens want Finance Minister out
The far-left Red/Green Alliance is preparing to launch a full-frontal attack on Finance Minister Bjarne Corydon. The party’s powerful steering committee is so embittered by Mr Corydon’s dominating role in the cabinet, and…
MoreInternational condemnation of new public information bill
The government’s heavily-criticised right to information bill is ‘unacceptable for a country that prides itself on being an open democracy’, according to an international watchdog. After studying the proposed bill which has come…
MoreCopenhagen gang leader fights in Syria
A notorious Copenhagen gang leader could be facing a terrorist rap after being filmed fighting in Syria. Abderrozak Benarabe, better known as ‘Big A’ from Blågards Plads in Nørrebro, was caught on camera…
More