Posted on 26. Oct, 2021 in: News

Tensions with Turkey eased as ambassadors back down

Tensions between Turkey and 10 Western countries, including Denmark, have eased following Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s threat to ban ambassadors who called for a jailed activist’s release last week. After the 10…

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Posted on 26. Oct, 2021 in: News

Virus updates

Infections hit 5-month high…..Herd immunity ‘achievable’ by Spring…Experts welcome corona pill… 1,411 people tested positive for COVID-19 over the 24-hour Sunday-Monday period, the highest infection rate since May. At the same time the…

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Posted on 26. Oct, 2021 in: News

LEGO bows to gender pressure

Danish toy giant LEGO is removing gender stereotypes from its products and will no longer market toys at boys and girls distinctly. Follows a study based on the responses of 7000 parents and…

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Posted on 26. Oct, 2021 in: News

SAS ‘fighting to survive’

The CEO of struggling Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has summoned employee unions to negotiations aimed at cutting costs. Anko van der Werff, a 45-year-old Dutch native who was only appointed last summer, said the company…

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Posted on 25. Oct, 2021 in: News

Løkke eyes comeback as prime minister

Former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has dismissed speculation that he’s on a revenge mission and claimed he could even be the ‘kingmaker’ who puts his successor as Liberal leader, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, in…

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Posted on 25. Oct, 2021 in: News

Brewery flip-flops on New Right beer

After initially issuing an apology for printing labels promoting the anti-migrant New Right (Nye Borgerlige) party, Thisted Brewery in northern Jutland bowed to public pressure by issuing a press release, Sunday, stating it…

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Posted on 25. Oct, 2021 in: News

U.S Defence Secretary confirms strong relationship with Denmark

Following a meeting on the sidlelines of the NATO Defence Ministerial Meeting in Brussels last week between Minister of Defence Trine Bramsen and her U.S. counterpart Lloyd J. Austin, the Pentagon issued a readout Friday…

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Posted on 24. Oct, 2021 in: News

No change of status for Ambassador to Turkey

Turkey has provided no official notification that Denmark’s Ambassador to Turkey has had his diplomatic status withdrawn, Berlingske reports. In a written statement Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said that Ambassador Danni Annan has…

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Posted on 24. Oct, 2021 in: News

Call to save historic Copenhagen townhouses

Many of the Danish capital’s small houses are in danger of demolition unless action is taken, Politiken writes. For well over a century cozy, intimate buildings, often with just a single storey, have…

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Posted on 24. Oct, 2021 in: News

Virus update: positive tests, hospitalisations on the rise

A total of 1,349 people tested positive for covid-19 over a 24-hour period at the weekend, according to new figures from the State Serum Institute. TV2 reports that the number of positive tests…

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7:59 – Danish News Today, is the most reliable source of daily Danish news in English for diplomats, the ex-pat community, the business sector, or anyone in Denmark or abroad seeking an insight into what’s happening in Denmark right now.

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