Denmark will make EU rebates a top priority
Denmark will lead the fight to stop countries enjoying major rebates from the EU budget when the country assumes the EU Presidency next year. While other countries have fought for, and won, significant…
MoreEU Turkey ruling leads to pull-out demands
A political majority of parties from both sides of the aisle is ready to explore the possibility of withdrawing from the EU’s association agreement with Turkey. In response to an EU Court ruling…
MoreTV2 derides Liberal Alliance’s celebrity culture
TV2 and Anders Samuelsen have become involved in a slanging match after the Liberal Alliance (LA) leader criticised a news report as ‘the most stupid thing I have ever heard’. Mr Samuelsen accused…
MoreLA will lead government to victory
Liberal Alliance leader Anders Samuelsen has promised a ‘major election victory’ if the Liberals and Conservatives accept his invitation to form a united front. At the party’s conference in Copenhagen over the weekend…
MoreSomali authorities promise help
The Somali authorities have promised to do everything within their power to secure the release of the Danish hostages seized by pirates. Head of the anti-pirate unit in the Puntland region where the…
MoreGreenland demands rendition flights inquiry
All parties in Greenland’s parliament have urged the Danish government to launch an independent inquiry into whether the CIA transported suspected terrorists through Danish, Greenlandic and Faroese air space, the so-called rendition flights….
MoreStateless affair divides opposition
The stateless Palestinians affair is dividing the opposition. The Social Liberals spokesperson on integration, Marianne Jelved, claimed over the weekend that the Social Democrats and Socialist People’s Party (SPP) have to accept some…
MoreUnion members lean right too
Although LO, The Confederation of Danish Trade Unions, has always traditionally had close ties to the Social Democrats and the left-wing, a new Gallup poll shows that 41% of its members actually vote…
MoreWhere’s the research?
Head of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre (CCC) Bjørn Lomborg claims to be ‘completely surprised’ by claims that his environmental research institute isn’t providing value for the DKK5m it receives in state funding every…
MorePoll provides bad news for Løkke
A new opinion poll gives the opposition 100 seats, against the government and its support parties’ 75, and sends a strong signal that Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen won’t be calling an election…
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