Posted on 18. Nov, 2025 in: News

Local elections underway

Polling stations are now open throughout Denmark for local elections. Turnout for municipal and regional elections typically hovers around 70 percent but is expected to drop this year due to changing population patterns,…

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Posted on 17. Nov, 2025 in: News

Foreign Minister in secret chat group

Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen is part of a secret group on messaging app Signal set up by EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas. In response to a freedom of information request by…

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Posted on 14. Nov, 2025 in: News

New populist party heading for parliament

A new poll shows the right-wing populist Citizens’ Party (Nye Borgerlige) would win 3.1 per cent of the vote and six seats if an election were held right now, the same as coalition…

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Posted on 13. Nov, 2025 in: News

Far-left candidate posed with rifle in support of terrorist organisation

A candidate for the far-left Red/Greens in next week’s municipal election has responded angrily to allegations that he sympathises with terrorists after a photograph emerged of him holding a replica rifle while wearing…

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Posted on 12. Nov, 2025 in: News

DPP leader sues rival for defamation

Danish People’s Party (DPP) leader Morten Messerschmidt has launched a lawsuit against Social Liberal leader Martin Lidegaard for defamation of character. In a video posted on X, Tuesday, Mr Messerschmidt accused the former…

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Posted on 11. Nov, 2025 in: News

MEPs unite against EU push for minimum wage

Danish MEPS from both left and right will stand together today when the European Court of Justice (CJEU) rules on a controversial minimum wage directive today. The ruling, designed to ensure ‘fair minimum…

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Posted on 10. Nov, 2025 in: News

UK turns to Denmark for immigration crackdown blueprint

Britain’s Labour government is taking inspiration from Denmark’s hardline immigration laws as it prepares to tighten its own asylum rules — a move critics say is ‘a dangerous path.’ Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood…

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Posted on 07. Nov, 2025 in: News

Novo strikes deal with Trump to slash drug prices

Novo Nordisk has reached an agreement with the Trump administration to cut prices on its diabetes and obesity drugs while pledging to invest $10bn (DKK 65bn) in the United States, according to Reuters….

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Posted on 06. Nov, 2025 in: News

Social Liberal leader denounces DPP’s racist policies

Social Liberal (Radikale) leader Martin Lidegaard has urged parties on the right to publicly distance themselves from the Danish People’s Party’s (DPP) call for widescale ‘remigration’ which, he claimed, could potentially lead to…

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Posted on 05. Nov, 2025 in: News

Soc Dems facing exclusion from new City Hall administration

For the first time in over a century there could be a left-wing majority at Copenhagen City Hall without the Social Democrats. With just 14 days to the municipal election a new Megafon…

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7:59 – All the Danish News That Fits

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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7:59: TODAS LAS NOTICIAS DANESAS DEL MOMENTO.
7:59-Noticias Danesas de Hoy es una nueva fuente de noticias en inglés dirigida especialmente al cuerpo diplomático, extranjeros viviendo en Dinamarca

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