Jakob Ellemann-Jensen: This charming man
Jakob Ellemann-Jensen hasn’t yet been elected new Liberal leader but voters already see him as more ‘eloquent, charming, and shrewd’ than Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, a new YopuGov survey for tabloid daily BT…
MoreDPP leader regrets not joining government
Danish People’s Party (DPP) leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl has acknowledged that the party’s disastrous election this year was a direct result of its failure to enter government in 2015. In an interview with…
MoreGang members lose appeal in data evidence scandal
Two Aarhus gang members who claimed the police used inaccurate mobile data evidence to convict them have had their appeals rejected by the High Court. One of the men insisted he had spent…
MoreThreat to government: Raise the price of cigarettes, or else…..
The Liberals (Venstre) have threatened to put together a cross-party majority, excluding the government, that would raise the price of cigarettes by at least 20 kroner. Ahead of the election the Social Democrats…
MoreRenewed call for legalised cannabis
A Copenhagen City Hall majority has called for a trial period to test legalised cannabis but the proposal has already been dismissed by the minister for health. The left-dominated City Council has repeatedly…
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National Bank follows ECB, slashes key rate / New record for Copenhagen Airport…. As predicted, the National Bank cut its key deposit rate by 10 basis points to minus 0.75%, Thursday a record…
MoreGovernment planned to build a wall in 2015
At the height of the refugee crisis in 2015 the Liberal (Venstre) government at the time discussed building a wall along Denmark’s southern border with Germany because it feared Europe was on the…
More‘Ghost’ refugee camp costs DKK20.8m
A tent camp built specifically to house migrants following the 2015 refugee crisis has stood empty for three and a half years, costing the state DKK20.8m($3m) . The camp was hastily set up…
MoreImmigration Minister backtracks on Moroccan asylum seekers
Ahead of this year’s election the Social Democrats’ Mattias Tesfaye urged then Immigration Minister Inger Støjberg to speed up the application process for Moroccan asylum seekers, who he claimed had no chance of…
MoreGovernment greenlights $28m aid package for Syria
The government has granted an extra DKK180m ($28m) to humanitarian aid projects in Syria, the Foreign Ministry announced, Wednesday. Danish aid organisations such as DanChurchAid, Red Cross, and Save the Children will, jointly,…
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