Government hesitant to pause aid for Palestinians
The government will make a decision about future aid funding for the U.N. Refugee Agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) this Spring, Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said yesterday, warning that the agency’s reserves of…
MoreGovernment presents elderly reform: ‘You’re never too old to feel good’
The government has presented its long-awaited draft proposal for wide-reaching reform of the elderly care sector, one of the coalition’s key policy issues during the current elective period. Under the working title ‘You’re…
MoreEx PM in Kyiv for talks with Zelensky
Former prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen met with President Zelensky in Kyiv, Tuesday, where he briefed the Ukraine leader about plans to establish an international working group on security issues and Euro-Atlantic integration…
MoreDenmark leads anti-corruption rankings…again
For the sixth year in a row Denmark is the least corrupt country in the world according to Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI), which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption on…
MoreShit happens – smelly wake-up call for Nordic Waste owner
Tabloid daily Ekstra Bladet dumped a truckload of manure outside Nordic Waste owner Torben Østergaard-Nielsen’s house in Middelfart last night in a ‘crap happening’. Taxpayers are facing a potential DKK200m (€27m) bill for…
MoreTop level EU visit ahead of June elections
President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola made a working visit to the Danish Parliament, Tuesday, to lobby for the upcoming June 9th EU elections. After being received by Speaker of the House…
MoreCrown Prince heads the country as King visits Poland
18-year-old Crown Prince Christian will fill in as regent for the next three days while his father, King Frederik, heads a trade delegation to Poland, the new monarch’s first trip abroad. According to…
MoreFrigate sets sail for Red Sea
The Danish frigate Iver Huitfeldt is heading for the Red Sea to join the U.S.-led Operation Prosperity Guardian, once parliament gives final approval, expected next week. Speaking to reporters on board the frigate before it…
MoreDanish charity donations used to fund Russian invasion
Money donated to the Russian Orthodox Church in Denmark is possibly being used to help fund Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Jyllands Posten reports this morning that donations, supposedly being used to support charity…
MoreNo evacuation for last Danish child in Syrian prison camp
Denmark has no legal obligation to repatriate the last remaining Danish child from the al-Roj prison camp in Syria, the High Court ruled, Monday. The seven-year-old boy and his Somali mother will have…
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