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Danish Christmas in Paris / Danish hydrogen deal in USA / Copenhagen in top-5 for real estate Paris: Princess Marie, Prince Joachim’s wife, has officially launched Danish Christmas Month at up-market Paris department…
MoreMunicipal elections – one day to go
In less than 24 hours the polls open for the 2017 local elections. Two leading Copenhagen candidates, the Danish People’s Party’s Finn Rudaizky and the Social Liberals’ Mie Nyegaard, provided an entertaining overview…
MoreDenmark gives €116m to counter Russian aggression
Denmark will give Ukraine and Georgia DKK 860m (€ 116m) over the next five years to help them resist Russian aggression and become ‘more western’. Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen approved the new ‘neighborhood…
MoreIntelligence agency mast to snoop on Russia
Danish Military Intelligence (Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste /FE) is building an 85 metre-tall telecommunications mast to monitor Russian transmissions. FE closed a similar down a similar listening post at Dueodde on the island of Bornholm…
MoreEMA decision today – Copenhagen in the running
Copenhagen is one of the front-runners when 27 EU states today pick the new host city for the European Medicines Agency (EMA), seen as one of the ‘jewels in the EU crown’ that’s…
MoreAlternative members asked to send in a photo of their…‘member’
Members of the left-wing Alternative party were encouraged to provide a snapshot of their penis to be used in a poster to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Copenhagen gay bar, Central Hjørnet….
MoreSocial Liberal leader offers open invitation to post-Brexit Brits
Social Liberal leader Moren Østergaard has promised British nationals and EU citizens residing in Great Britain a warm welcome if they come to Denmark to work after the UK leaves the EU. In…
MoreGoogle buys up land for new Danish data centre
Web giant Google has bought a plot of land in southern Denmark with the aim of building a new date centre, close to a similar Apple project. Apple said in July it would…
MoreThe Week That Was, November 13th – November 19th 2017
Politics/Economy A candidate for the far-right New Conservatives (Nye Borgerlige) in this week’s municipal elections was expelled for racism – in a direct-mail campaign to voters in Gentofte, under the heading ‘Dear Patriots’,…
MoreDenmark joins anti-coal alliance
Denmark has joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance of at least 18 countries who’ve agreed to phase out coal from power generation before 2030. Energy Minister Lars Christian Lilleholt (V) signed the agreement,…
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