Denmark unable to fulfill NATO obligation
The Danish Army doesn’t have the capacity to extend its NATO mission in Latvia. Earlier this year Denmark sent a battalion of 800 soldiers to the Baltic country to help strengthen NATO’s alliance’s…
MoreFormer PM to Taiwan
Ex-NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen, will visit Taiwan at the start of January for talks with President Tsai Ing-wen. The Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release, Thursday, that…
MoreRise in Covid infections hits nursing homes
The number of confirmed corona cases has more than doubled over the past four weeks, from just over 600 on November 27th to more than 1,400 yesterday. At the same time the health…
MoreRestrictions on Chinese travellers?
Danish virus specialists have urged the immigration authorities to follow other countries and impose COVID rules for travellers from China. The US, Italy and other countries have introduced restrictions following the surge in…
MorePolice on the alert following Christmas stabbings
Copenhagen Police have imposed stop and search zones in Nørrebro and the North-West district following a spate of stabbings over the Christmas period. Chief Inspector Tommy Laursen said in a press release: “Five…
MoreHouseholds facing bigger inflation bills in 2023
Despite signs that rampant inflation is slowing down leading economists have warned that households will continue to be hard hit in 2023. A study by one of Denmark’s biggest pension companies, PFA, shows…
MoreVienna edges out Copenhagen as world’s most liveable city
Copenhagen has risen to second place on the 2022 Global Liveability Index, the annual report published by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), from a lowly 13th last year. Vienna comes in first, for…
MoreGovernment stands firm on proposal to scrap public holiday
If the Great Prayer Day public holiday is scrapped from 2024, as proposed by the government, it will never be reinstated, tabloid daily BT reports. Great Prayer Day falls on the fourth Friday…
MoreCompanies see global instability as biggest threat to growth
A majority of Danish companies see instability and uncertainty abroad as the main obstacle to growth next year. In a new survey by the Confederation of Danish Industry (DI) in which companies were…
MoreDenmark lags behind Sweden in GDP
Denmark’s total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2021 was worth $397.1 billion, representing 0.18 percent of the world economy according to official data from the World Bank. The final figure was far less than…
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