Posted on 14. Aug, 2017 in: News

Løkke denounces EU deportation constraints

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said Friday the authorities’ inability to deport EU criminals makes his ‘blood boil’. He told Jyllands-Posten it makes him ‘really, really angry’ to see Romanians come to Denmark…

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Posted on 14. Aug, 2017 in: News

Troops on the streets ‘un-Danish’

The government’s move to deploy soldiers to help the police fight crime is both controversial and ‘un-Danish’ according to political commentators. The government said Friday it would allow troops to help with border…

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Posted on 14. Aug, 2017 in: News

DPP: Deport gang boss

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has urged the courts to ‘get tough’ and deport gang leader Shuaib Khan who was remanded in custody for 17 days, Friday, for threatening a police officer. Pakistan-born…

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Posted on 14. Aug, 2017 in: News

Opposition leader attacks Muslim schools

As further evidence of their new-found, hard-line integration policy the Social Democrats have called for the closure of all Muslim free schools with a majority of non-Danish pupils. Party leader Mette Frederiksen has…

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Posted on 14. Aug, 2017 in: News

Inventor held on suspicion of manslaughter

A Danish inventor has been detained in custody for 24 days while police investigate the disappearance of a Swedish journalist. Peter Madsen, 46, also known as ‘Rocket Madsen’, was arrested on preliminary manslaughter charges…

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Posted on 14. Aug, 2017 in: News

Faroe Islanders dream of independence

Secessionists in the tiny Faroe Islands are pushing for independence from Denmark. The Faroes won home rule in 1948 after the Danish government rejected the outcome of a referendum in which islanders narrowly…

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Posted on 14. Aug, 2017 in: TWTW

The Week That Was, August 7th – August 13th 2017   

Politics/Economy Opposition leader Mette Frederiksen kick-started the new political season by inviting the Danish People’s Party (DPP) to form a ‘welfare alliance’ against the government’s proposals to cap public expenditure growth and cut…

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Posted on 11. Aug, 2017 in: News

Gang boss avoids deporation

The alleged leader of the notorious immigrant street gang Loyal to Familia (LTF) has on two occasions been given a conditional deportation order yet remains in Denmark. Pakistan-born Shuaib Khan,  originally jailed for…

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Posted on 11. Aug, 2017 in: News

DR in hijab row

State-run TV network DR has come under for sending an 11-year-old girl to Iran to test the new hijab fashion trend, the headscarf that some Muslim women choose to wear over their heads. In…

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Posted on 11. Aug, 2017 in: News

Crown Prince ‘regrets’ father’s burial decision

Crown Prince Frederik has said he regrets his father’s decision not to be laid to rest alongside his wife of 50 years, Queen Margrethe, in the Danish monarchy’s traditional resting place, Roskilde Cathedral….

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7:59 – All the Danish News That Fits

7:59 – Danish News Today, is the most reliable source of daily Danish news in English for diplomats, the ex-pat community, the business sector, or anyone in Denmark or abroad seeking an insight into what’s happening in Denmark right now.

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