Foreign students leave behind debt mountain
Around 16,000 foreign students owe the Danish state nearly DKK1b (€133m) in unpaid loans. The Conservatives’ education spokeswoman, Katarina Ammitzbøll, called the debt mountain ‘alarming’ and compared it to other debt scandals, such…
MoreBeijing ambassador passed on information about Swedish demonstrators
Ahead of the climate summit in Copenhagen 12 years ago the Danish embassy in Beijing passed on crucial information about how Swedish police had handled Falun Gong demonstrators in Stockholm two years previously…
MoreVirus updates
Positivity rate remains stable….Website offers fake corona tests…..Mass vaccinations in Copenhagen, Monday….. 717 new corona cases were reported, Thursday, from 214.311 tests, as the positivity rate remained unchanged at 0.33%. There were no…
MoreDenmark 1st in rule of law
Denmark has again taken 1st place in the World Justice Project’s (WPJ) annual rule of law rankings. Each year, the WPJ measures how people around the world experience the rule of law in…
MoreGovernment lays out DKK106bn green infrastructure bill
The government has proposed spending DKK106bn ($17 billion) over the next fourteen years on major transport infrastructure projects, including motorways, bridges, and tunnels across Denmark and improved public transportation such as battery-driven trains….
MoreSpecial ops force to Mali
The government will despatch a special operations force to Mali in West Africa next year to help resist an Islamic State and al-Queda insurgency. Following a meeting of parliament’s Foreign Policy Committee, Thursday,…
MoreRefugees who refuse to leave on ‘crime spree’
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has urged the government to crack down on failed asylum seekers who are living a life of crime in this country. Following reports that many of the 300…
MoreFailed Syrian asylum seekers facing years in Danish camps
Hundreds of refugees without residency permits could be stuck in Denmark for years. The Social Democrats have warned that although many Syrian nationals face the prospect of not having their residency permits extended…
MoreLøkke hires loyalist to run new party
Lars Løkke Rasmussen is well advanced forward with plans to start his own party but still hasn’t made it official. After the former prime minister hired ex-Liberal (Venstre) MP Jakob Engel-Schmidt to lead…
MoreLeft-wingers seize power in Greenland
As projected, Wednesday, the left-wing Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) party emerged as the big winner in Greenland’s general election, winning 37% of the vote and toppling the ruling social democratic Siumut party. IA’s victory…
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