Liberal leader: We won’t be Løkke’s ‘little helper’
Liberal (Venstre) leader Troels Lund Poulsen has warned that his party will lead a ‘new blue opposition’ to hold the centre-left government to account. Speaking at the annual Citizens’ Forum (Folkemødet) on Bornholm…
MoreHomeowners hit with rising interest rates
Homeowners are set to face higher borrowing costs after the National Bank raised interest rates on Thursday, matching a 0.25 percentage point increase by the European Central Bank (ECB) earlier in the day….
MoreCopenhagen named world’s happiest city
Copenhagen has been named the happiest city in the world, beating rivals such as Helsinki and Geneva to the top spot. The annual Happy City Index ranks cities across 64 indicators covering health,…
MoreNovo Nordisk hit by cyber breach
An ‘unauthorised party’ gained access to Novo Nordisk’s internal IT systems and copied personal data in a cybersecurity incident disclosed on Thursday. The pharmaceutical giant said in a statement it had initiated an…
MoreMosque deletes traces of controversial imam after media inquiry
Denmark’s biggest mosque has removed all online references to its spiritual leader, Imam Shahid Mehdi, following a probe by Berlingske. A spokesperson for the ‘Great Mosque’ in Nørrebro, part of the Hamad Bin…
MoreTop-level sources issue war warning
Senior Nordic intelligence officials and NATO military sources have warned that Denmark could quickly be drawn into a new war between Russia and Europe. In interviews over the past eighteen months for a…
MoreRussian expansion is ‘very serious’ says Defence Minister
Denmark is taking Russia’s military expansion near the Nordic and Baltic regions ‘very seriously’ Defence Minister Jeppe Bruus said last night after satellite imagery revealed how Russia is expanding military bases and strengthening…
MoreGreen Left leader re-hires sexual abuser
Minister for the Economy Pia Olsen Dyhr’s decision to re-hire a personal advisor who was thrown out of her party, the Green Left (SF), six years ago for inappropriate behaviour and sexual abuse…
MoreLiberal leader breaks with Løkke
Liberal leader Troels Lund Poulsen has accused his former mentor and close ally, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, of putting personal ambitions ahead of politics by refusing to support a centre-right coalition of the Liberals,…
MoreMuslim politician starts new life as Christian priest
Naser Khader, once known as Denmark’s leading immigrant politician, has completed his training as a priest and will begin work in a church near Næstved in July. The Syrian-born 62-year-old, who quit politics…
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