Islamist group urges Muslims to boycott election
Hizb ut-Tahrir has again urged Muslims to reject democracy and boycott the upcoming general election. In a leaflet distributed in connection with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan the Islamist organisation, outlawed in…
MoreFree Greens leader shares videos praising slain Iranian dictator
Sikandar Siddique, head of the libertarian Free Greens (Frie Grønne), is again at the centre of a political controversy. Mr Siddique, who was last year reported to the police for hanging anti-Israel posters around…
MoreRussian Embassy: Nuclear agreement ‘destabilising for Europe’
The government’s decision to join a strategic partnership linked to France’s nuclear programme has been dismissed by the Russian embassy in Copenhagen as ‘destabilising for Europe.’ In a written response to DR, the…
MoreDenmark joins nuclear agreement
Denmark has entered an agreement on strategic nuclear deterrence with France. At a press conference last night, alongside Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen and Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen…
MoreCoalition leaders hold ‘bizarre’ press conference
The government’s joint press conference last night to announce Denmark’s entry into a French-led nuclear deterrence cooperation was a reflection of the strange state of Danish politics right now, according to leading political…
MoreImmigration Minister: Pro-Iran sympathisers should pack their bags and leave
Minister for Immigration and Integration Rasmus Stoklund has urged pro-Iran demonstrators who took part in a tribute to Iran’s slain dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Sunday evening, to ‘leave Denmark and go home’ if…
MoreJustice Minister questions Liberals’ refusal to exclude anti-migrant party
Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard has lashed out at Liberal leader Troels Lund Poulsen for refusing to rule out a future government including the anti-migrant Danish People’s Party (DPP). After Mr Lund Poulsen said during…
MoreMassive rise in state bureaucracy
When the government came to power in 2022 it promised to slash bureaucracy but new figures show thousands of state jobs in management and administration have been created over the past four years….
MoreTop CEO issues wealth tax warning: ‘I’ll quit’
The CEO of wind energy giant Vestas has warned he will quit Denmark if a future centre-left government imposes a wealth tax on the country’s high earners, as proposed by the Social Democrats and…
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