Unidentified drones near North Sea oil fields
The Danish Energy Agency received 16 reports of unidentified drones and shipping activity near offshore installations in the North Sea following the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines in September. Financial daily Børsen…
MoreCrisis party excludes co-founder for racist remarks
A co-founder of the anti-migrant New Right has been kicked out of the party for making abusive and racist comments on social media. Svend Pedersen was officially excluded from the party’s executive committee,…
MoreClimate Minister given ‘dressing down’
Climate Minister Lars Aagaard came under fire for the government’s failed policies at a parliamentary consultation, Thursday. Five parties from both sides of the aisle – the Red/Greens, Conservatives, Socialist People’s Party, Alternatives…
MoreAustria’s Chancellor in Copenhagen for migration talks
Austria’s Chancellor Karl Nehammer arrives in Copenhagen this morning for talks with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, where migration and the increase in the number of migrants heading for the EU will be high…
MoreForeign Minister welcomes approval of Finland’s NATO membership
Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has welcomed the approval of Finland’s membership of NATO by all 30 member states, calling it “very positive”. The Turkish parliament gave the green light for Finland to…
MoreMinister issues warning after leak of citizenship data
Minister for Immigration and Integration, Kaare Dybvad (S) has reminded politicians of their duty of confidentiality after the chair of Parliament’s Citizenship Committee, Mikkel Bjørn (DF) revealed confidential information about a future Danish…
MoreUnemployment rises for fourth straight month
The unemployment rate rose for the 4th successive month in February as 500 people lost work, bringing the number of jobless to 81,700, or 2.8%, from 81,700 in January. The youth jobless rate,…
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Bio-tech merger…..Denmark 2nd-biggest oil producer in EU….More problems for SAS…..Supreme Court rules Bitcoin are taxable.… A majority of shareholders at two of Denmark’s biggest biotech companies, Novozymes and Chr. Hansen, have thrown their…
MoreHuman Rights Watch: ‘Denmark is scraping the bottom’
The newly-appointed executive director of Human Rights Watch has warned the government it will cause ‘serious damage’ to Denmark’s international reputation if it carries out the plan to set up an offshore processing facility…
MoreCall for ban on arms exports to Israel following link to mega-bombs
Denmark’s two most left-wing parties, the Red/Greens and Alternatives, have called for a ban on all exports of arms to Israel after it was revealed that Israeli F-35 fighter jets could be using…
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