The Week That Was, June 8th – 14th 2020:
Coronavirus/ What happened last week: The prime minister made it very clear it was the government alone that made the decision to close Denmark down in mid-March – during a parliamentary consultation called…
Protester shot by police
A knife-waving protestor was shot by the police at an anti-Muslim demonstration, Friday, arranged by Rasmus Paludan, leader of the far-right Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party. According to reports the man managed to…
Black Lives Matter leader attacks Støjberg: ‘Lock Her Up’
Danish demonstrators echoed Donald Trump supporters during Monday’s Black Lives Matters demonstration in Copenhagen by screaming ’lock her up’ when former integration minister Inger Støjberg was named. Although the demonstration was purportedly a…
May 1st rallies cancelled – but not for anti-Islamist
International Workers Day celebrations throughout Denmark today have been cancelled for the first time since 1940 when the German occupying force banned public gatherings. In some towns May 1st rallies have been replaced…
Nationalist leader’s propaganda channel closed down again
Video sharing service YouTube has closed down nationalist party Stram Kurs’ channel, ‘The Voice of Freedom’. Party leader Rasmus Paludan moved his anti-Islamist propaganda to You Tube earlier this month after being excluded from…
The Week That Was, November 25th –December 1st 2019:
Politics/Economy: Ahead of this week’s summit of allied leaders in London to mark NATO’s 70th anniversary the Danish government is preparing to accede to Donald Trump’s demand to spend at least 2% of…
Anti-Islamist on election: We needed more time
Rasmus Paludan is in no doubt his Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party would have entered parliament at his year’s general election if it had had more time to prepare for the campaign. The…
The Week That Was, November 11th – November 17th 2019:
Politics/Economy: Parties on the left distanced themselves from Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s claim that international conventions ‘protect the wrong people’ and are forcing Denmark to repatriate Danish jihadists – in response to the…
Parliament to host right-wing party’s convention
Anti-Islamist Rasmus Paludan has accepted an invitation to hold his Stram Kurs’ (Hard Line) party’s national convention at Christiansborg, the home of Danish parliament, on November 23rd. After the police banned the far-right…
The Week That Was, October 28th – November 3rd 2019:
Politics/Economy: The government’s left-wing allies pushed for significant tax hikes to fund their demands for more welfare – the Red/Greens called for more taxes on shares and capital gains, the Socialist People’s Party…
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