Posted on 28. Jan, 2019 in: News

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…

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Posted on 28. Jan, 2019 in: News

Top 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…

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Posted on 28. Jan, 2019 in: News

Build 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…

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Posted on 28. Jan, 2019 in: News

Food 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…

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Posted on 28. Jan, 2019 in: News

Foreign 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…

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Posted on 25. Jan, 2019 in: News

Controversial 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…

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Posted on 25. Jan, 2019 in: News

Danish 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…

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Posted on 25. Jan, 2019 in: News

War 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…

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Posted on 25. Jan, 2019 in: News

Danes 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…

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Posted on 25. Jan, 2019 in: News

Growth 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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7:59 – All the Danish News That Fits

7:59 – Danish News Today, is the most reliable source of daily Danish news in English for diplomats, the ex-pat community, the business sector, or anyone in Denmark or abroad seeking an insight into what’s happening in Denmark right now.

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