Sweden’s isolation damaging for Nordic cooperation
Sweden’s continued isolation from its neighbours during the corona crisis could seriously damage Nordic cooperation, the country’s foreign minister warned over the weekend. Denmark has opened its borders today to visitors from Norway…
MoreThink-tank: DK, Greenland and Faroes need to find common foothold in Arctic policy
A leading foreign policy think-tank has urged the government to align Denmark’s Arctic policy with Greenland and the Faroes Island to de-escalate tensions in the region, in response to a growing great-power rivalry…
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Zero inflation….Denmark number 1 in digitisation…. Danish inflation stayed unchanged at 0.0% in May, the second consecutive month with no price increases. The low price of fuel was the main factor but analysts…
MoreThe Week That Was, June 8th – 14th 2020:
Coronavirus/ What happened last week: The prime minister made it very clear it was the government alone that made the decision to close Denmark down in mid-March – during a parliamentary consultation called…
MoreIranian exiles received $3m from Saudi Arabia to fund terrorism
Three exiled Iranians in Denmark allegedly received, or attempted to obtain, more than DKK20m ($3m) from a Saudi Arabian intelligence agency between 2012-2018 to fund terrorist activities. In the latest in a long…
MoreTwitter tiff over budget deal
Jacob Ellemann-Jensen’s demand to know where the government expends to find the money to fund the proposed EU budget expansion sparked off a war of words on Twitter yesterday. Following a Finance Ministry estimate…
MoreEx-PM lined up to broker Libya peace deal
The U.S. wants former Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt to help the United Nations (UN) broker a peace deal in Libya. News agency Reuters reports that U.N. chief Antonio Guterres has suggested former…
MorePaludan heading for prison
Rasmus Paludan, leader of the anti-Muslim Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party, could be facing a prison term. Næstved District Court will later this month be asked to rule on 14 charges put forward in…
MoreParties query Prince’s Paris deal
Parliament was split along party lines, Thursday, when debating whether Prince Joachim should be allowed to take his annual royal grant to Paris when he assumes his new job as Denmark’s defence attaché…
MoreTroops, helicopters to Iraq…frigate to Strait of Hormuz
A parliamentary majority has agreed to dispatch helicopters and 285 troops to Baghdad as Denmark prepares to assume leadership of a training mission for Iraqi security forces from Canada by the end of…
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