DPP demands more defence spending
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has urged the government to live up to NATO demands and increase the military’s budget. Although it’s only 12 months since a cross party majority agreed to boost…
MoreTop snoop heading for prison
Denmark’s former top ‘snoop’ has been given a 4-month prison sentence and ordered to pay DKK397,000 for violating the official secrets act. A Copenhagen court found former head of PET (Danish Intelligence) Jakob…
MoreBuild that fence
Construction of the 70-km fence along Denmark’s border with Germany to keep out wild boar gets underway today. The DKK75m ($12m) fence is a part of a March 2018 agreement between the government…
MoreFood Minister in hot water over pig deaths
Food Minister Jacob Ellemann Jensen has been accused of misleading parliament about the number of pigs that die as they’re being exported from Denmark. More than 9 million pigs are shipped abroad every…
MoreForeign Minister in Ukraine
Minister of Foreign Affairs Anders Samuelsen and his Ukraine counterpart Pavlo Klimkin will visit Mariupol tomorrow, the port city that was briefly seized by pro-Russian separatists in 2014 before being recaptured by Ukrainian…
MoreControversial jewellery law rarely employed
Three years after the government’s controversial jewellery law was passed new figures reveal not one single item of jewellery has been confiscated from a refugee arriving at the border – a single car…
MoreDanish police enjoy Europol benefits despite opt-out
Denmark isn’t a full member of Europol but Danish police are using the cross-border agency’s crime database more than ever before. Denmark was facing total exclusion from Europol after Danes voted to maintain the country’s justice opt-out…
MoreWar inquiry report delayed as Foreign Minister refuses to back down
An official report charting Denmark’s participation in foreign wars between 1993 – 2004 has been postponed for five days following a dispute between Speaker of the House Pia Kjærsgaard and Foreign Minister Anders…
MoreDanes queue up for ghetto apartments
More than 150 potential Danish renters have signed up for a viewing this weekend of 17 renovated apartments in the Muslim-dominated social housing complex of Gellerupparken, near Aarhus, designated as a ghetto by…
MoreGrowth boost for Copenhagen
After years of focussing on economic growth in remote, struggling areas of Denmark the government has now turned its attention to Copenhagen. Business Minister Rasmus Jarlov presented more than 100 new initiatives, Thursday,…
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