The government has offered to evacuate the Iranian-Danish woman at the centre of yesterday’s landmark Supreme Court ruling. Three other women evacuated from the al-Roj detention camp in Syria in October 2021, alongside their…

A hush-hush, cross-party 7-person parliamentary delegation arrived in Kyiv by train, Wednesday for talks with Ukrainian lawmakers regarding Denmark’s military and civil aid. The chair of parliament’s Foreign Policy Committee, Michael Aastrup Jensen,…

Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has dismissed criticism of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen for failing to discuss human rights in talks with her Egyptian counterpart, Moustafa Madbouly, and President Abdel Fattah El-Sis last…

Finance Minister Nikolaj Wammen has warned there’ll be no giveaways in the government’s draft budget that will be published today. In a press release last night he said that even though the economy…

The Systemic Risk Council (SRC) has warned of possible ‘turbulence’ in the banking sector following the failures of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank in the U.S. and Credit Suisse in Switzerland…

Danish defence spending rose to DKK 38.7bn ($5.5bn) last year, the highest amount ever and an increase of DKK5.5bn ($730m) on 2021. At 1.38% of GDP, spending is gradually edging towards the NATO…

Denmark’s training mission for Ukrainian troops in mine-sweeping and artillery systems is to become part of the European Union Military Assistance Mission (EUMAM) that allows member states to host training for 15.000 Ukrainian soldiers….

Dan Jørgensen, Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy, has spent the past two days lobbying for a worldwide tax on fossil fuel. At a press conference on the second day of the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial, a…

For the first time ever a Greenland diplomat will become part of Denmark’s permanent representation at NATO to provide expertise and input on Artic conditions. According to Greenlandic news site, NKR, Ms Lida…

A new international survey confirms what many newcomers to Denmark discover very quickly – it’s difficult to connect with Danes. The annual Expat Essentials Index reveals the locations that make life abroad easiest and…