Denmark gives an extra $23m to UN Peacebuilding Fund
Denmark will contribute DKK 150m ($23m) to the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund for 2021-2023, a 50% increase on funding from 2018 to 2020. Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said Denmark’s increased contribution is part…
MorePrime Minister deflects impeachment questions
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen denied yesterday there are similarities between the Minkgate affair and the Child Brides affair that led to a 60-day prison sentence for former immigration minister Inger Støjberg, Monday Some…
MoreParliament set to vote on Støjberg exclusion before Christmas
Inger Støjberg’s immediate political future will be decided by her fellow MPs next week. After a meeting of the Committee for Election Review, Tuesday, chairman Lennart Damsbo-Andersen said he expected parliament to vote…
MoreRacist charged with assaulting a journalist
A neo-Nazi who set fire to a copy of the Koran outside the courtroom where the impeachment trial of Inger Støjberg was being heard has been charged with assaulting a journalist. 45-year-old Toke…
MoreSexual harassment at Berlingske
A high-ranking employee at Berlingske Tidende, Denmark’s oldest newspaper, has been fired with immediate effect for abusive behaviour towards women. Editor in chief Mette Østergaard said she had received a complaint about the…
MoreVirus updates
Explosive infection rate….Omicron spreading at a ‘fierce rate’….’R ‘ rate confirms spread of virus…. 8,314 new corona cases were reported, Tuesday, a record high for the second time this week and four times…
MoreIntelligence Commission clears top snoops of any wrongdoing
The Military Intelligence Commission has found there are no grounds to hold anyone accountable in a top-level case from last year regarding the leaking of sensitive information about Danish citizens. Former top military…
MoreOil company fined $5.2 million in fuel to Syria affair
Danish oil supply company Dan-Bunkering and its parent company, Bunker Holding, have been fined more than $5 million for delivering jet fuel to the Russian air force in Syria, in violation of an…
MoreAustralian company drops Greenland mining project
Greenland Minerals has ceased all operations in Greenland where the home-rule government recently outlawed uranium mining. The Australian company’s controversial rare-earth mining project at Kvanefjeld in the south of the island was on track to…
MoreFormer immigration minister found guilty in child brides affair
Ex-immigration minister Inger Støjberg was sentenced to 60 days in prison by the Court of Impeachment, Monday, after being found guilty of illegally ordering the separation of under-age couples seeking asylum. In what…
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