Egypt: The new Berlin Wall
Naser Khader has compared what’s happening in the Middle East to the meltdown of the Soviet Union in the 1980’s that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Conservatives’ Syrian-born foreign…
More‘Climate sceptic’ gets DKK138m in green money
By 2014, ‘Sceptical Environmentalist’ Bjørn Lomborg, will have received over DKK138mn in public funding for environment research. Mr Lomborg was installed as head of the newly formed Institute for Environmental Evaluation in 2002…
MorePia vs. Villy
The two polar opposites in Danish politics, Danish People’s Party leader Pia Kjærsgaard and Socialist People’s party boss Villy Søvndal, are to go head to head in a TV debate next Thursday. Well-known…
MoreMinistry regrets political message
The Ministry of Social Affairs has been forced to apologise for politicising on its website. A newsletter published earlier this week, containing claims that the left’s policies would have a detrimental effect on…
MoreSend asylum seekers back says DPP
Asylum seekers who are granted asylum status by the Danish authorities should still be sent back to Greece if that was their first EU destination, according to the Danish People’s Party (DPP) who…
MoreKjær was victim of discrimination says gender expert
Conservative policy spokesperson Henriette Kjær’s downfall was a direct result of gender discrimination according to researcher Karen Sjørup of Roskilde University who said the press loves nothing more than putting young, good looking,…
MoreTax bosses on safari
Five top tax officials enjoyed an all-expenses paid golf and safari weekend in South Africa paid for by their department’s IT supplier, Accenture. Jyllands Posten has been granted right of access to documents…
MoreNews in brief
Teens marry Muslims, DPP attacks Muslim-only slaughterhouses, Families hit by oil hike, TB ravages Greenland, AP Møller-Mærsk optimistic An increasing number of teenage Danish girls under the legal age of 18 are entering…
MoreKjær quits
Henriette Kjær has resigned as the Conservatives’ policy spokesman and chair of the party’s parliamentary group. She has also announced her intention to leave politics at the next election, despite being unanimously re-elected…
MoreDid she go or was she pushed?
Conservative leader Lars Barfoed was unable to give a clear answer when asked whether he personally urged Henriette Kjær to step down. Emerging from a meeting of party MP’s this morning he stressed…
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