Prospective prime minister sounds death knell for mining project
34-year-old Mute Bourup Egede, who as head of the Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) party is set to become the youngest prime minister in Greenland’s history if he can put together a coalition, confirmed yesterday…
MoreDenmark’s biggest ever military investment comes to fruition
After 24 years in the pipeline Denmark has finally taken delivery of the first of 27 F-35 fighter jets purchased from Lockheed Martin to replace the air-force’s ageing fleet of F16s in the country’s…
MoreVirus updates
Spike in hospitalisations….Widespread testing strategy costs up to DKK100m a day….. 614 new corona cases were reported, Wednesday, from 186.275 tests, a positivity rate of 0.33%. Although the figures remain relatively stable there…
MoreSocialists on course for victory in Greenland
The last voting stations closed in Greenland at 01.00 this morning with initial results indicating a victory for the main opposition party, the socialist Inuit Ataqatigit (AI), which has campaigned for full independence…
MoreAll eyes on Greenland
The outcome of yesterday’s election in Greenland is being closely watched in Washington DC, Beijing, and Moscow. The Arctic island of 56,000 people has hit the headlines several times in recent years. In…
MoreHealth Minister resists calls to speed up reopening plan
As hairdressers and tattooists returned to work, Tuesday, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke dismissed opposition calls to speed up the reopening process. Ahead of the 1st phase of the reopening last month the National Serum…
MoreLong queues as shops reopen
There were long lines outside corona test centres, Tuesday, as people queued for hours to obtain a negative test that would give them a 72-hour ‘corona pass’ providing access to hairdressers, beauty salons,…
MoreVirus updates
Infection rate stable as shops reopen….New mutation resistant to vaccines…. 520 new corona cases were reported Tuesday, ‘a really good starting point for Denmark’s reopening’ according to professor of clinical microbiology at the…
More‘Draconian’ rules send foreign students home
12 foreign students at Danish high schools have been ordered to leave the country because they are judged to be an infection threat. Politiken reports how the students came to Denmark to learn…
MoreBanks’ profit down but reserves up
Danish banks experienced a severe downturn in profits last year. A new report by finansdanmark.dk, a business association for banks, mortgage institutions, asset management, securities trading and investment funds in Denmark, shows collective…
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