Economy bounces back from recession
The economy bounced back strongly in the third quarter (Q3) as the retail and service sector gradually reopened but remains well below 2019 levels. The latest Statistics Denmark figures show Gross Domestic Product…
MoreU.S. lawmakers tighten sanctions on Nord Stream 2 suppliers
Sanctions that could halt the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline currently under construction in Danish territorial waters have been included in the annual US defence policy bill, EU affairs newspaper Neweurope reports….
MoreWhen Obama met Løkke at Cop15: ‘He looked like he’d been in a wrestling match’
In his autobiography that’s published this week ex-U.S. president, Barak Obama, provides a detailed description of his meeting with former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen at the Copenhagen Climate Summit (COP15) in 2009….
MoreLeft-wing support for government’s illegal mink order
The government has finally put together a parliamentary majority for its controversial order to cull Denmark’s entire mink population. All the ‘red bloc’ parties – the Social Democrats, Social Liberals (Radikale), Socialist People’s…
MoreExperts denounce government’s mink policy
Leading law experts have dismissed the government’s shutdown of the mink industry as unprecedented and without any legal basis. Professor Henrik Rothe, project leader at judicial think tank Justitia, said yesterday the government continues…
MoreFood Minister still living on borrowed time
Although the centre-left parties have rescued the government by supporting its illegal order to cull millions of mink they aren’t prepared to do the same for under-fire food minister, Mogens Jensen. The Social…
MoreSerum Insitute withheld crucial information
Leading virus experts have questioned why the National Serum Institute (SSI) failed to share crucial information about the coronavirus in mink that could have helped the authorities to manage the outbreak better. Data…
MoreMink cull…now chicken cull
Following the mink cull, the government has now ordered 25,000 chickens to be culled after finding H5N8 bird flu on a farm in Randers. The cull, which will halt all poultry and egg…
MoreVirus updates
Upward trend ‘very concerning’….Copenhagen University advances covid vaccine…Finland out-performs Nordic neighbours…. 1,195 new corona cases were registered Monday, a 10-day high and a sign that the infection still isn’t under control, virus specialist…
MoreDefence Ministry employees facing prison for expense scandal
Five men have been charged with bribery, fraud and misappropriation of public funds in one of the Danish military’s biggest ever scandals. Viborg District Court heard yesterday how two former employees of the…
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