Ex-PM’s new party: ‘The Moderates’
Former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has revealed more details about his new party and, for the first time, an official name – ‘The Moderates’ (Moderaterne). In a Constitution Day speech, Saturday, Mr…
MoreMohammed cartoons axeman has no regrets
The ’mad axeman’ who was given a 10-year jail sentence for attempting to murder Mohammed illustrator Kurt Westergaard in 2010, has said he has no regrets about the attack. Although Somali national Mohamed Geele has…
MoreForeign Minister flies to Iraq after meeting with Baltics
Minister for Foreign Affairs Jeppe Kofod made a flying visit to Baghdad, Sunday, where he officially opened Denmark’s new embassy. At a press conference alongside his Iraqi counterpart, Fuad Hussein, Mr Kofod said the opening of…
MoreVirus update
853 new corona cases were reported Sunday, an increase of 261 on the previous day. The positivity rate was 0.59%, based on nearly 145,000 PCR tests. Professor Thorkild Sørensen of Copenhagen University said…
MoreThe Week That Was, May 31st – June 6th 2021:
Coronavirus/ What happened last week: Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen received the first shot of a corona vaccine at Øksnehallen in Copenhagen on Friday. 1,028 new corona cases were reported Thursday based on 126,808…
MoreParliament passes controversial asylum bill
Parliament has passed the controversial bill that will allow asylum seekers to be processed in offshore centres outside of the EU. The legislation, passed by a cross-party majority, authorises the government to, when…
MoreCriticism for ‘irresponsible’ asylum legislation
The new asylum seeker legislation passed yesterday was met with a barrage of criticism from aid and human rights organisations here and abroad. Refugees Welcome charity spokesperson Michala Bendixen said: “This is insane,…
MoreNorway’s PM condemns espionage against ‘close friends’
Norway’s prime minister, Erna Solberg, had a ‘serious conversation’ with her Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, Thursday, regarding the espionage affair. After it was revealed how Denmark’s Military Intelligence (FE) ageny allowed the US…
MoreTop intelligence employee accused of forgery
The espionage scandal took a new twist, Thursday, when a top official at the Defence Intelligence Agency (FE) was temporarily relieved of his duties and sent home. Politiken reports how the head of…
MoreVestager on espionage: ‘I knew nothing’
Denmark’s Executive Vice President of the European Commission Margrethe Vestager said yesterday that European countries ‘shouldn’t be spying on their neighbours’ in the wake of allegations that Denmark’s intelligence services helped the U.S. spy…
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