Justice Minister targets foreign fighters
Every one of the 115 Danish nationals who’ve travelled to Syria as a foreign fighter is to be investigated by a specially convened task force appointed by Justice Minister Søren Pind, who said…
MoreRight-wing parties call for end to snooping legislation
The government’s allies on the right are determined to rescind the ‘snooping law’ that allows the tax authorities to enter a person’s private property without a court warrant, to check whether renovation work or…
MoreLocal authorites challenge government policy
Local Liberal mayors have accused the government of launching a ’massacre on welfare’ after Finance Minister Claus Hjorth Frederiksen ordered them to save 1% of their annual budget, either by cutbacks or efficency…
MoreDanish rape victim claimed she had AIDS
The 52-year old Danish woman who was gang-raped near the New Delhi Railway Station in January last year has told a Delhi court that she told her attackers she was infected with AIDS…
MoreRoskilde Festival tries to turn urine into beer
The annual Roskilde music festival that got underway Wednesday has introduced an interesting concept this year – turning urine into beer. Festivalgoers are being asked to urinate in specially designed storage tanks, which…
MoreGovernment starts crackdown on asylum seekers
The government has put together a majority for legislation aimed at reducing the number of asylum seekers heading for Denmark – last year, 15,000 people sought asylum in Denmark, twice as many as…
MorePia K. is first female Speaker of the House
The Danish Parliament will get its first-ever female speaker today, ex-DPP leader Pia Kjærsgaard. The Liberal Alliance had threatened to block Ms Kjærsgaard’s nomination unless the government was willing to cut the top…
MoreDanish terrorist stripped of citizenship
In a landmark ruling the High Court has stripped a convicted terrorist of his citizenship. Said Mansour, ‘The Bookseller from Bronshøj’ who held both Danish and Moroccan citizenship, had his Danish passport revoked…
MoreHizb-ut Tahrir spokesman charged with social fraud
The spokesman for the Islamic Hizb-ut Tahrir organisation in Denmark has been charged with social fraud totalling over DKK100,000. Junes Mads Kock Johansen, who has previously characterised the Danish state’s efforts to fight…
MoreCourt rules against Ryanair
Ryanair will not be using Copenhagen as a base after the Labour Arbitration Court (Arbejdsretten) yesterday ruled that airport staff have the right to refuse to service its flights in a dispute over…
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