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Restaurants facing ‘poisonous cocktail’….Luxembourg inks energy deal with Denmark…Denmark’s oldest newspaper goes all-digital….’China has failed in Greenland’…. The restaurant industry could be heading for a wave of bankruptcies. According to Kristian Nørgaard, head…
MoreModerates gain strength as campaign enters final week
As the election campaign enters its final week, former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s influence continues to grow. The latest Epinion poll for DR News shows that just under 10% of the electorate…
MoreLøkke dismisses rivals ‘nonsensical’ views
Moderates leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen has accused the two prime minister candidates on the right of having a ‘nonsensical view’ of politics after they issued a warning that a vote for the former…
MorePM renews call for cross-party coalition
Mette Frederiksen has urged her prime minister rivals to reconsider their opposition to a broad, across the centre coalition. On the sidelines of the EU summit in Brussels. Friday, the PM said it’s…
MoreCandidates’ parties aren’t fully committed to ‘top of the ticket’
The three parties with prime minister ambitions aren’t fully committed to their candidate. A new Voxmeter survey shows that while 98% of Social Democrat voters support Mette Frederiksen, only 82% of Liberal (Venstre)…
MoreRivals dismiss PM’s new anti-inflation measures
The Social Democrats’ latest proposals to ease the inflation burden on the most vulnerable, published Saturday, were immediately dismissed as ’too little’ and ’targetting the wrong people.’ In a speech to an elderly…
MoreTemporary border controls enter sixth year
Justice Minister Mattias Tesfaye has extended border controls with Germany and Sweden that were set to expire next month. The temporary checks, first introduced in 2016 in a bid to enhance security amid terrorist threats,…
MoreEx-PM’s daughter undergoes gender transition surgery
Former prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s eldest child has undergone a sex-change operation. Milo Kinnock, born as Camilla, who revealed earlier this year that he was non-binary, has had a double mastectomy. When she…
MoreWhy is energy crisis absent from election campaign?
Healthcare, Minkgate, tax cuts, and the espionage affair have topped the election agenda so far but one issue has been mysteriously absent – energy and security policy – which dominated the headlines following…
MoreMette lays out 100-day plan
The Social Democrats will present an emergency plan for the health sector ahead of the election, one of five top priorities that Mette Frederiksen has promised will be implemented within the first 100…
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