Top foreign ministry aide: Police bear responsibility for Tibet crackdown
The police were solely to blame for cracking done on pro-Tibet demonstrators during visits by Chinese officials, a former top-ranking foreign ministry civil servant claimed yesterday. In a long day of testimony, Friis…
MoreEU: Denmark joins call for more relaxed state aid rules
Denmark, alongside Austria and the Czech Republic, has urged the EU to loosen state aid rules further and make it easier for companies hit by the COVID-19 pandemic to receive support. The European…
MoreStøjberg’s supporters demand voice vote on impeachment trial
When MPs make the final vote on whether to launch an impeachment trial of ex-immigration minister Inger Støjberg next week they will be required to clearly state their name, if it’s up to…
MoreDanish vaccine production ‘unrealistic’
Pharmaceutical insiders have dismissed left-wing calls for Denmark to start its own state-backed production of a corona vaccine as ‘unrealistic.’ Pernille Skipper, titular head of the Red/Greens (Enhedlisten), said yesterday that if Pfizer…
MoreHospitalisations, infections down
The number of patients hospitalised by covid-19 continues to fall – 666 yesterday, 18 fewer than Tuesday and the lowest number for more than a month. The downward trend mirrors the falling infection…
MoreWealthy Danes try to jump vaccine queue
An up-market British travel club that offers luxury ‘vaccine package holidays’ to Dubai has received a number of enquiries from wealthy Danes for ‘all-inclusive’ trips that can cost up to DKK500,000. In a…
MoreDenmark leads the way on anti-corruption list
Denmark has retained its top spot as the world’s least corrupt country. On the latest Corruption Perceptions Index, published by Transparency International early this morning, Denmark shares first place with New Zealand, followed…
MoreSuspended ambassador handed new Foreign Ministry role
Thomas Ahrenkiel, who was set to become Denmark’s new ambassador to Germany last August before being suspended pending an investigation into allegations of espionage in the armed services, has been handed a new…
MoreJustice Minister: The fight against anti-Semitism is not over
At a ceremony to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Thursday, Justice Minister Nick Hækkerup stressed the importance of remembering and commemorating the millions systematically murdered as Nazi Germany attempted to exterminate Europe’s Jewish…
MoreDenmark, India agree on green partnership
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and her Indian countepart, Narendra Modi, have reached agreement on a “far reaching Green Strategic Partnership” between the two countries that, the Danish PM said, will put Denmark in…
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