Danish virus specialist denied entry to China
A top Danish specialist, part of a team of World Health Organisation (WHO) virus experts, has been denied entry to China to investigate the origins of the coronavirus. WHO Secretary General Adhanom Ghebreyesus…
MoreSomali father deported for brainwashing kids
A 54-year-old father has been sentenced to one year in prison with deportation to follow for sending his two children on a ’re-education’ trip to his native country of Somalia. The man was…
MoreFew houses, apartments on offer
The number of houses or apartments for sale is at a 10-year low. The latest figures from property site Boligsiden.dk show only 37,000 homes are on the market right now, a 25% drop…
More2020 news: The high – and low – points
Corona dominated the news cycle in 2020 but there were other issues – two party leaders quit, Denmark dropped North Sea oil, the Lord Mayor of Copenhagen was hit by MeToo….and then came…
MoreCan Ellemann-Jensen survive?
Opposition leader Jakob Ellemann-Jensen was hit by a ‘triple whammy’ in 2020 – Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Inger Støjberg, and the corona crisis – that has torpedoed him, and the Liberal Party, into a…
MoreDelay in second dose of Pfizer vaccine
The Danish Health Authority (DHA) has decided to follow the UK by delaying the second doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 jab beyond the recommended 21-day period. Despite safety warnings from Pfizer against altering…
MoreVirus updates
964 hospitalised but positivity rate falling…British mutation could lead to more restrictions in Denmark…. The number of patients hospitalised by corona is fast approaching 1,000. A further 27 were admitted to a hospital,…
More€1m extra for Syria
Denmark has contributed an extra DKK7.5m (€1m) to the Syria Recovery Trust Fund (SRTF), alongside Germany’s €18m, to support the fund’s recovery efforts (SRTF) in areas liberated from the Islamic State, reliefweb.int reports. SRTF…
MoreEx-prime minister quits Liberals after 40 years
A bad week for the Liberals (Venstre) got even worse on New Year’s Day when ex-prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen announced he was quitting the party to become an independent MP. The dramatic…
MoreLiberals stumble into new year in crisis
Leading political commentators agree that under pressure Liberal leader Jakob Ellemann is facing a major clean-up operation in 2021 as he tries to unite a party that’s in the midst of an historic…
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