With immigration a hot topic in the lead-up to the Swedish elections, Danish politicians warn about the negative consequences of their neighbours’ generous asylum policies. With Sweden taking in a record number of asylum seekers – 340,000 are expected over … Read More
Danish PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt today said Denmark is willing to send up to 300 troops to Poland and the Baltic nations as part of a NATO rotating unit. The company will be deployed for up to 90 days on a … Read More
Police officers from both countries will in the future mount joint patrols in frontier areas, both in uniform and in plain clothes, it was agreed yesterday. A corresponding agreement signed in the Danish border town of Padborg would allow police … Read More
The Agriculture Ministry in Schleswig-Holstein has found that meat tainted with Listeria was imported to the north German state. Twelve people in Denmark have died from consuming meat tainted with the the bacteria Listeria. It is not yet known if … Read More
The European Commission has adopted today the Danish national Operational Programme for the implementation of the European Social Fund in the period 2014-2020. This programme outlines the priorities and objectives to spend €400 million (of which over 200 from the … Read More
Denmark and Germany are the countries that have benefited most from the European single market since its establishment in 1992, a study published on June 27 shows. A study commissioned by the German Bertelsmann Foundation compared which of the 15 … Read More
Among member states of the European Union (EU), tax burden is the higest in Denmark, Belgium and France, a report by the statistics agency Eurostat shows. The data in Eurostat’s report on ‘Taxation trends’ in the EU, published on June … Read More
In the event of a major emergency involving chemical gases, radiation or hazardous smoke, sirens would sound, but now our phones will also raise the alarm. The Danish Emergency Management Agency has started work on developing an app for smartphones … Read More
Denmark has the EU’s happiest workforce, according to research published yesterday by Eurobarometer. Ninety-four percent of Danish workers are satisfied with their own conditions at work, the survey found, closely followed by Austrians and Belgians. Meanwhile, more than 80 percent … Read More
An increasing number of private companies in Denmark use competition clauses for student jobs, which are keeping newly graduates from getting employed. The trade union Djøf says that at least once a week, a student asks for counseling on job … Read More
Denmark will send six F-16 fighter to the Baltics for four months from the beginning of May to due to the effect the Ukraine crisis has had on international security. Danmarks Radio, the Danish public broadcasting service, said the move … Read More
An EU lighting strategy that would freeze a phase-out of energy-guzzling lamps for two years would hurt clean energy firms, dampen the EU’s environmental legislation and threaten future green laws, according to a Danish Energy Agency (DEA) paper, seen by … Read More
Today Copenhagen is officially crowned the European Green Capital 2014, taking the title from Nantes, France at a handover ceremony in Brussels. The Danish capital was awarded the title following an intensive Europe-wide competition. Commissioner Potočnik said “I congratulate Copenhagen … Read More
The Danish government is lobbying the European Commission in Brussels to prevent the mink from ending up on the ‘invasive species’ list of animals which Brussels wants to keep away from Europe because of the environmental damage they can cause. … Read More
Danish Peoples Party - DF -refuses to join alliance, which so far includes the French party Front National and the Dutch party PVV, ahead of the European Parliament election next year. DF has turned down a request to join a coalition … Read More
Last year, the number of births in Denmark was the lowest in25 years, and not since 1968 has our fertility rate been high enough for the population to reproduce itself, according to figures from Statistics Denmark. Danish daily Politiken reports … Read More
Doctors and IT experts fear a government plan to sell patient health data to the medicinal industry could threaten people’s privacy rights. Patient health data the government hopes to sell to the medical industry may not be as anonymous as … Read More
Exotic fish fund in the sea off Copenhagen: A related pacu piranhas floundering in a fisherman’s net. With its strong teeth, he can crack nuts - even biting attacks on testes of men are documented. “Ball Cutter” fishermen call the … Read More
Decades of weather and waves have done what World War Two and post-war demolition attempts failed to do - bring the enormous concrete bunkers which formed Hitler’s Atlantic Wall to the brink of collapse. Now Danish authorities are tearing down, … Read More
EU yesterday intervened to settle an ongoing dispute between the Scandinavian neighbours so that Southern Swedes who cross the Öresund Bridge as part of their daily commute to work in Denmark now are set to finally benefit from Danish child … Read More
