Bars, restaurants to close at 10pm
Bars, cafes, and restaurants in Copenhagen will be forced to close at 10pm every night from tomorrow following a significant increase in the number of corona cases. The reproduction rate, which indicates how…
MoreRestaurants facing bankruptcy after government clamps down
Restaurant owners have warned of a ’wave of bankruptcies’ after the government imposed a 10pm shut-down order on the ‘nightlife’ sector following a surge in infections amongst young people. Anders Aagaard, owner of…
MoreAnalyst: Mette’s losing it
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s wave of popularity since the outbreak of the corona epidemic in March is slowly ebbing out, according to leading political analyst Henrik Qvortrup. The PM’s handling of the crisis…
MorePM defends Foreign Minister against Me Too accusations
Prime Minister has come to the defence of her beleaguered Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod who’s at the centre of a ‘Me Too’ storm for having sex with a 15-year-old girl at a Social…
MoreDenmark loses human rights case
Denmark has suffered a defeat at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) which ruled yesterday that keeping a mentally ill man strapped to a restraint bed in hospital for a long period…
MorePrince to start work in Paris after recovering from blood clot
Prince Joachim has recovered after suffering a blood clot on the brain and is ready to assume his new role as Denmark’s defence attaché at the Danish Embassy in Paris. The Royal House…
MoreBusiness shorts
Pension industry challenges government on early retirement plan….Electric car sales surge in August….. Insurance and Pension Denmark CEO, Kent Damsgaard, has called on the government to explain why it intends to fund its…
MoreLiberals flirt with far-right Swedish party
The opposition Liberals, accused of being soft on immigration since Jacob Ellemann Jensen became party leader last year, have moved closer to the far-right Sweden Democrats, ostracised in their own country for their virulent anti-migrant…
MoreHealth experts call for new measures as virus spreads
Health experts and lawmakers have warned of the need for more restrictions to halt the alarming increase in corona cases. With more than 1,000 new infections over the Friday-Monday period, including 347 yesterday,…
MorePM denounces sexual harassment as pressure grows on Foreign Minister
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has come out in support of the growing campaign against sexual harassment in the workplace, an issue she’s previously been accused of ‘sidestepping’. In a Facebook message, Monday, the…
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