Government launches new English-language programmes to attract skilled foreign labour
The government has announced plans to establish more International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes in a move to encourage international employees to stay longer in this country by ensuring better educational opportunities for their children….
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Retail collapse…Maersk buys Panama Canal railroad….Taiwan opens Chamber of Commerce in Copenhagen…Global consultancy company opens Dublin office…. One in five retail stores in Denmark has closed over the past decade. A new study…
MoreTrump promises every Greenlander ‘big bucks’
Donald Trump is willing to give Greenlanders far more money than Denmark if they are willing to leave the Danish commonwealth, according to U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance. In an interview with right-wing…
MoreNew Greenland PM: ‘We are human beings, not a piece of property’
Greenland’s incoming prime minister has again stated very firmly that the Trump Administration’s talk about annexing his country is unacceptable. After U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed on Friday that Greenlanders don’t…
MoreRepublican lawmaker goes against Trump’s expansionist plans
One of the few Republicans in the U.S. Congress willing to criticise Donald Trump has dismissed the President’s plans to acquire Greenland as ‘embarrassing and damaging.’ In an interview with Berlingske, Sunday, Don…
MorePublic supports NATO but doubts U.S. commitment
While the public remains committed to NATO’s ‘all for one, one for all’ Article 5 principle, trust in the United States as a military partner has declined. A new Verian poll for Berlingske…
MoreDenmark’s new F-35s intercept Russian jet
The Royal Danish Air Force’s new fleet of F-35 fighter jets was scrambled for the first time ever last week. Danish Defence reported that the planes, which only became fully operational on April 1st,…
MoreDetention centre a ‘breeding ground’ for terrorists
Danish Intelligence (PET) is concerned that the Kærshovedgård detention centre in West Jutland for failed asylum seekers and criminal refugees awaiting deportation is becoming a breeding ground for terrorists. A leaked confidential government…
MorePM to U.S.: You cannot annex other countries
On the second day of her visit to Greenland Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen offered a direct message to Donald Trump: “You cannot annex other countries—not even in the name of security”. Speaking from…
MoreLøkke hits back at U.S. over tariffs and Greenland
During a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Brussels, Thursday, Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen criticised the American approach to negotiations following President Trump’s tariff war against the EU and…
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