Finance Minister gives his home town a DKK1m Christmas gift
Questions are being asked as to why the small Aarhus suburb of Skæring Hede – Finance Minister Nikolaj Wammen’s home district – has been granted DKK1m ($147,000) in the 2024 budget for the…
More‘Church Minister’ to address growing antisemitism with Jewish leaders
New Ecclesiastical Affairs Minister Morten Dahlin will hold talks with Jewish leaders next week to ease their concerns about the growing public expressions of antisemitism, after posters appeared throughout the Copenhagen underground Metro…
MoreCrown Prince takes private jet to climate conference – the ‘height of hypocrisy’
Crown Prince Frederik has come under fire for arriving at a climate conference in north Jutland in a private jet while at the same time sending his royal limousine on a 834-kilometre round…
MoreNew epidemic warning
The National Serum Institute (NSI) has warned that a new infection sweeping Denmark could become an epidemic. The number of people infected with mycoplasma pneumoniae, an ‘atypical’ bacterium that can lead to pneumonia,…
MoreU.S. reports on opioid abuse in Denmark
A report earlier this week that 40 out of 47 drug treatment centres in this country have experienced a rising number of youths suffering opioid abuse has reached the U.S. where a crisis…
MoreEU rules Covid funding for SAS was legal
Denmark didn’t act illegally when it gave struggling airline SAS billions of kroner during the Covid pandemic. Rival airlines have claimed it created unfair competition but the EU Commission ruled yesterday that the…
MoreDanish exporters hope for COP28 boost
Business leaders are confident the Cop28 climate summit that gets underway in Dubai tomorrow could spark off an export boom for Denmark. For the first time ever delegates will negotiate concrete, technological solutions,…
MoreShocking Hitler posters in Metro
Police are investigating who’s responsible for anti-Semitic posters that appeared throughout the Copenhagen underground Metro system, Monday evening. The shocking images, such as ‘Death to all Zionists’ and ‘We hope Jews suffer like…
MorePM agrees to probe immigrants’ under-age marriages
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has agreed with the need for a probe into why more than 1,200 minors with non-western immigrant heritage had their marriages approved by ‘royal order’ (kongebrev) from the late…
MoreMore UN criticism for government’s Rwanda plan
The UN has again questioned Denmark’s plan to send asylum seekers to a processing centre in Rwanda. Two weeks after the UK Supreme Court said Rwanda could not be considered a safe third country,…
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