Denmark gives DKK5m to strengthen Iraq’s judicial system
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, alongside the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL (UNITAD) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to implement a project aimed at strengthening…
MoreDanish jet fuel supplier helped Russian military circumvent sanctions
New information reveals that Danish company Dan-Bunkering made suspicious, multi-million payments to help Russian companies circumvent sanctions. Based on U.S. court documents, DR News reports how Dan Bunkering, already heavily implicated in a…
MoreKristian Jensen, dumped by his own party, praised by PM
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has praised Kristian Jensen’s call for more long-term, across the centre, reform policy to finance future expenditure on welfare, infrastructure, and green conversion. The former deputy Liberal leader was…
MoreEx-minister looks for job outside politics
Under pressure former foreign minister Kristian Jensen is reportedly considering whether to quit politics to become head of the Sports Confederation of Denmark (SCF). The current chairman of SCF steps down next year and…
MoreDisgruntled Liberal voters boost Conservatives
45,000 Liberal (V) voters have defected to the Conservatives, according to a new study in voter trends by Professor Kasper Møller Hansen of Copenhagen University who said the move rightwards mirrors the turbulence…
MoreDenmark earns big bucks from ‘new’ EU members
Although around 50% of the Danish electorate is opposed to further EU enlargement and one in five believes the EU has become too big, a new study by the Confederation of Danish Industry…
MoreHealth Minister sounds the alarm as youth cocaine use doubles
Cocaine use in Denmark amongst young people has nearly doubled over five years. A new study reveals that 3% of the 15-26 age group – nearly 25,000 – have snorted or smoked cocaine…
MoreNews in brief
Home repossessions fall to 11-year low….Voluntary firefighters to Australia…Little Mermaid defaced with Hong Kong protest… Home repossessions fell to their lowest since pre-crisis 2008 last year as low interest rates and high employment…
MoreLiberal leader asserts his authority – dumps former deputy PM
The Liberals’ former deputy prime minister Kristian Jensen, once seen as the ‘crown prince’ of the party, has been stripped of his spokesperson title and other high-ranking committee positions by leader Jakob Ellemann-Jensen…
MoreTurkey nabs ‘brainwashed’ Danish terrorist
Notorious Danish-Syrian foreign fighter Jacob El-Ali, who in 2014 posed with decapitated bodies in the then Islamic State-held city of Raqqa, has been detained in Turkey and is in custody awaiting extradition to…
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