Posted on 26. Oct, 2021 in: News

LEGO bows to gender pressure

Danish toy giant LEGO is removing gender stereotypes from its products and will no longer market toys at boys and girls distinctly. Follows a study based on the responses of 7000 parents and…

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Posted on 26. Oct, 2021 in: News

SAS ‘fighting to survive’

The CEO of struggling Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has summoned employee unions to negotiations aimed at cutting costs. Anko van der Werff, a 45-year-old Dutch native who was only appointed last summer, said the company…

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Posted on 25. Oct, 2021 in: News

Løkke eyes comeback as prime minister

Former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has dismissed speculation that he’s on a revenge mission and claimed he could even be the ‘kingmaker’ who puts his successor as Liberal leader, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, in…

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Posted on 25. Oct, 2021 in: News

Brewery flip-flops on New Right beer

After initially issuing an apology for printing labels promoting the anti-migrant New Right (Nye Borgerlige) party, Thisted Brewery in northern Jutland bowed to public pressure by issuing a press release, Sunday, stating it…

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Posted on 25. Oct, 2021 in: News

U.S Defence Secretary confirms strong relationship with Denmark

Following a meeting on the sidlelines of the NATO Defence Ministerial Meeting in Brussels last week between Minister of Defence Trine Bramsen and her U.S. counterpart Lloyd J. Austin, the Pentagon issued a readout Friday…

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Posted on 24. Oct, 2021 in: News

No change of status for Ambassador to Turkey

Turkey has provided no official notification that Denmark’s Ambassador to Turkey has had his diplomatic status withdrawn, Berlingske reports. In a written statement Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said that Ambassador Danni Annan has…

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Posted on 24. Oct, 2021 in: News

Call to save historic Copenhagen townhouses

Many of the Danish capital’s small houses are in danger of demolition unless action is taken, Politiken writes. For well over a century cozy, intimate buildings, often with just a single storey, have…

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Posted on 24. Oct, 2021 in: News

Virus update: positive tests, hospitalisations on the rise

A total of 1,349 people tested positive for covid-19 over a 24-hour period at the weekend, according to new figures from the State Serum Institute. TV2 reports that the number of positive tests…

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Posted on 24. Oct, 2021 in: News, TWTW

The Week That Was, October 18th – 24th 2021:

Coronavirus/ What happened last week: Covid infections hit a 5-month high as 1,349 people tested positive – the positivity rate of those tested (2.01%) is the highest since January. By the end of…

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Posted on 22. Oct, 2021 in: News

Minkgate texts reveal “high drama” in PM’s office

Newly-published text messages show “something close to panic” in the Prime Minister’s Office following the decision to slaughter the nation’s entire mink population, TV2 reports. The revelations came after a former top civil…

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