In traditional Constitution Day speeches throughout the country, Saturday, party leaders touched on a wide range of issues, including liberty, surveillance, asylum seekers, espionage, green conversion, abuse of power, stress – here’s what…

The new government in Greenland has raised doubts about the extra DKK1.5bn in military spending agreed by the Danish parliament for Arctic defence. The funding, passed in February, will include DKK750m for the use…

Former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has revealed more details about his new party and, for the first time, an official name – ‘The Moderates’ (Moderaterne). In a Constitution Day speech, Saturday, Mr…

The ’mad axeman’ who was given a 10-year jail sentence for attempting to murder Mohammed illustrator Kurt Westergaard in 2010, has said he has no regrets about the attack. Although Somali national Mohamed Geele has…

Minister for Foreign Affairs Jeppe Kofod made a flying visit to Baghdad, Sunday, where he officially opened Denmark’s new embassy. At a press conference alongside his Iraqi counterpart, Fuad Hussein, Mr Kofod said the opening of…

853 new corona cases were reported Sunday, an increase of 261 on the previous day. The positivity rate was 0.59%, based on nearly 145,000 PCR tests. Professor Thorkild Sørensen of Copenhagen University said…

Coronavirus/ What happened last week: Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen received the first shot of a corona vaccine at Øksnehallen in Copenhagen on Friday. 1,028 new corona cases were reported Thursday based on 126,808…

Parliament has passed the controversial bill that will allow asylum seekers to be processed in offshore centres outside of the EU. The legislation, passed by a cross-party majority, authorises the government to, when…

The new asylum seeker legislation passed yesterday was met with a barrage of criticism from aid and human rights organisations here and abroad. Refugees Welcome charity spokesperson Michala Bendixen said: “This is insane,…

Norway’s prime minister, Erna Solberg, had a ‘serious conversation’ with her Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, Thursday, regarding the espionage affair. After it was revealed how Denmark’s Military Intelligence (FE) ageny allowed the US…