Defence Ministry wants missiles that can hit Russia
The Defence Ministry has made a long – and expensive – ‘wish list’ of what the military needs to deal with the Russian threat. A cross-party majority reached agreement last year on a…
More‘Mothballed’ Danish tanks could be sent to Ukraine
Some of the 99 used Leopard-1 tanks that were deployed in the Balkans by the Danish military but have since been decommissioned could be sent to Ukraine. The tanks are currently in storage…
MoreNational Bank increases interest rates after EU rate hike
The National Bank of Denmark has increased interest rates by 0.35 percent, bringing the rate up to 2.1 percent, it announced Thursday. The hope is that by making borrowing money more expensive, consumer…
MoreCopenhagen Municipality introduces 4-Day work week
Denmark’s largest workplace, Copenhagen Municipality, will soon offer employees the option to work four days instead of five each week. The City Council voted in favour of a one-year pilot project, allowing certain…
MoreNordic Jewish groups, Turkish President condemn Koran burning
Jewish communities in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway issued a statement Thursday, denouncing the normalisation of anti-Muslim sentiment, Berlingske reports. The appeal came after Danish-Swedish right-wing activist Rasmus Paludan recently staged Koran-burning protests in…
MoreOpposition parties divided over promise to reinstate public holiday
As the controversial bill to abolish the Great Prayer Day public holiday was debated in parliament Thursday, the opposition parties were divided over whether or not they would promise to reinstate it if…
MoreGovernment drops pre-election agreements
In a departure from many years of accepted parliamentary practice, the government will no longer honour political agreements that lost their majority backing at the November 2022 general election. Usually, political agreements still…
MoreDefence Ministry braces for NATO, US defence spending demand
A parliamentary majority has already agreed to significantly increase defence spending but the Defence Ministry expects the US and NATO to ask for even more. A cross-party majority reached agreement last year on…
MoreCoalition parties disagree on Syria kids
The three government coalition partners remain divided on whether the five Danish children currently living in the Kurdish-controlled Al-Roj prison camp in northern Syria should be repatriated. The previous Social Democrat government offered…
MoreGovernment backs EU call for more green subsidies
The government is ready to pump even more public money into green companies. After European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen yesterday stressed the need to roll out a bold investment package for…
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