Christian party accepts abortion rights
The tiny Christian Democrats party has dropped its opposition to abortion on demand and now supports a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy during the first 12 weeks. Deputy leader Jesper Housgaard said…
MoreParliament settles Arctic island dispute with Canada
The ’friendly feud’ between Denmark and Canada over Hans Island, a large piece of rock in the Arctic, has reached a peaceful conclusion after 50 years. The long-standing dispute flared up in the…
MoreMaersk re-routes ships around Africa to avoid Red Sea conflict
Shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk has ordered all its container vessels to sail south of Africa to avoid the Red Sea conflict area where Houthi militants have attacked several ships. About 20 Maersk vessels,…
MoreDenmark to ink defence deal with US this week
The US and Denmark will sign a defence cooperation agreement later this week. Speaking at the signing of a similar accord with Finland in Washington DC, Monday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken…
MoreNew deal will allow US to defend Nordic region
The agreed defence deal with the US could lead to ‘historic scenes’ in this country with American troops on Danish soil for the first time since World War 2, TV2’s foreign affairs correspondent…
MoreDenmark backs Swedish tank deal with DKK 1.8bn
Denmark and Sweden have joined forces in a new, multi-million kroner aid package to Ukraine. At a press conference alongside his Swedish counterpart, Pål Jonson, at Frederiksborg Castle, Monday, Defence Minister Troels Lund…
MoreVoters divided on Ukraine aid
Nearly every second voter supports Denmark’s ever-rising financial donations to Ukraine. A new Megafon survey for TV2 shows 45% of the electorate want Denmark to be among the biggest donor nations, compared to…
MoreChristmas blues for PM
The government continues to lose voters at an alarming rate. A new poll taken on the first anniversary of the ‘grand coalition’ shows the government would win no more than 33.8% of the…
MoreDanish national facing life sentence for Rwandan genocide
A Danish national could be sentenced to a life sentence in Rwanda this week if he’s found guilty of complicity in the murder of up to two thousand ethnic Tutsis during the 1994…
MoreDanish intervention in Red Sea?
The government is considering possible intervention in the Red Sea following the near-miss attack on an A.P. Moller-Maersk vessel by Yemen’s Huthi militants. After the Danish shipper paused all its container ship traffic…
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