President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen showered Mette Frederiksen with praise yesterday but declined to confirm or deny whether the prime minister is in the running for a top EU…

Greenland has come out in support of a UN proposal for a precautionary pause, or ‘moratorium’, on deep-sea mining for rare earths and minerals, in contrast to Norway which has approved commercial plans…

Pusher Street in Christiania is to be demolished. Residents of the ‘Free State’ and hired labourers will dig up the notorious street on April 6 but, Berlingske reports, everybody in Denmark is welcome…

The head of the Salafi Grimhøj mosque in Aarhus has been given a 15-month conditional prison sentence after being guilty of social fraud. Aarhus District Court found that controversial imam Oussama El-Saadi, who’s…

As previously reported, the government presented a plan, Wednesday, to increase defence spending by more than DKK 40bn ($6 b) over the next four years, primarily financed by an increase in state debt….

Young army conscripts could be despatched abroad as part of the heavy infantry brigade the government is planning to build up as a defence against Russia. After announcing earlier in the day that,…

NATO would not be capable of shooting down every missile fired at Denmark by Russia if President Putin launched an attack, three military experts said yesterday after Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen claimed…

The Conservatives’ new leader, Mona Juul, has said that removing the punitive top rate of income tax will be a key issue for the party at the next election campaign, in line with…

If Donald Trump is elected U.S. president again in November he could renew his bid to buy Greenland, a prominent international relations expert has claimed. Trump first speculated about buying Greenland in 2019 but…

Three men have been sentenced to 40 days in prison for burning an effigy of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at an anti-lockdown demonstration in January 2021 with a sign around its neck stating…