US – Greenland mutual admiration
Greenlandic Premier Múte Bourup Egede, his Minister for Foreign Affairs Pele Broberg, and Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod were full of praise for the U.S. and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken during talks…
MoreRed/Greens make election threat
The Red/Greens have threatened to topple the government if Prime Minister backs down on her promise to combat child poverty. The far-left party’s titular leader, Mai Villadsen, warned yesterday that if the government…
MoreCorona infections could double
1,214 new corona cases were reported, Wednesday, based on 185,566 PCR tests, providing a positivity rate of 0.65%, the highest since January 26th. At the same time the number of patients hospitalised by covid…
MoreVestager slaps banks with €371m fine for cartel
Denmark’s Executive Vice President of the European Commission Margrethe Vestager, the head of competition policy in the EU, fined three banks – the Swiss UBS, Italian UniCredit, and Japanese Nomura – €371m ($452m)…
MoreBusiness shorts
U.S. lifts sanctions on Nord Stream 2…..India-Nordic summit postponed….Lithuanian woman jailed for money laundering…Danske Bank employees encouraged to work from home…. The US has lifted sanctions on the company behind Russia’s Nord Stream…
MoreNew refugee island
The government has published plans for a new holding centre for failed asylum and criminal immigrants currently housed at the much-criticised Kærshovedgård departure centre in Jutland where the local community has been plagued by…
MoreDPP slams government’s refugee plan
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has dismissed the government’s plan for a refugee departure centre on the island of Langeland as ‘incomprehensible.’ Party leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl said local residents and tourists will…
MorePM: Syria decision was based solely on intelligence evaluation
In her first public statement regarding the evacuation of Danish kids from Syrian detention camps, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen confirmed that the decision was based on a new threat evaluation by Danish Intelligence…
MoreGovernment defends evacuation of Syria kids
The government has dismissed claims it has known about the security problem in Syria detention camps for a long time and is only using that latest PET (Danish intelligence) risk evaluation as an…
MoreVirus updates
Daily infections top 1,000….Voluntary vaccine available from next week….Sweden suffers as Denmark recovers…. 1,088 new corona cases were reported, Wednesday, based on 188,043 PCR tests, a positivity rate of 0.56%, following three days…
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