Denmark

From the end of the Paul Watson arrest saga to citizenship screening and pests in your Christmas parcels, our weekly column Inside Denmark takes a look at some of the stories we’ve been talking about this week.

Denmark’s usually-stable currency was left weakened on Friday after the news that pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, a major contributor to the national economy, had suffered a 20 percent devaluation of its share price.

Shares in Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, maker of diabetes and weight-loss treatments Ozempic and Wegovy, plunged on Friday after it announced disappointing results of a new drug study.

Denmark’s infectious disease control agency State Serum Institute says that the number of Covid-19 cases is declining in the run-up to Christmas, but that other seasonal illnesses are spreading.

The Danish parliament has passed a law requiring certain foreign residents with longstanding records of unemployment to perform obligatory work to receive welfare benefits.

Annual collective bargaining agreements are set to kick off on January 6th, with experts expecting Denmark's acute labour shortage to play a big role in the talks.

Denmark's foreign minister said Thursday that he expected a Chinese ship, anchored off the Danish coast and linked to two severed undersea cables, would be able to leave once an inspection which included four countries was completed.

A group of EU immigration hawks, including Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, held talks ahead of a summit of the bloc's leaders on Thursday -- the second consecutive gathering of its kind -- upping pressure on Brussels to boost migrant returns.

The libertarian party Liberal Alliance on Thursday refused to vote for a bill granting over 2,000 people Danish citizenship because it wants the government to implement the screening of future applicants.

Copenhagen mayor hopeful wants to hike cost of airport transport, police went too far in climate demo response, PM states view on Syrian refugees and more news from Denmark this Thursday.

Tobias Jespersen says be careful before describing the city as sustainable and a role model. Morten Iversen laments its soulless expansionWhile the urge to write positive stories about solutions to the climate crisis must be strong, and they are needed, Copenhagen should not be one (The five-minute city: inside Denmark’s revolutionary neighbourhood, 10 […]

Hundreds of thousands of Danes will hit the roads or hop on trains, buses and planes at Christmas, making it one of the busiest times of the year for travelling. Here's what you need to know.

The Danish Immigration Ministry is to consider a new step to the citizenship application process which would ‘screen’ the personal views of applicants.

The Danish parliament is set to award citizenship to three individuals after summoning them for controversial individual interviews.

Japan's government voiced dismay on Wednesday over the release of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson after Danish authorities refused Tokyo's extradition request.

Interviewed citizenship applicants get approval, Japan not happy over Watson release, rare turtles appear in Jutland and more news from Denmark this Wednesday.

There are a surprising number of unwritten rules when it comes to greeting people throughout the Christmas season. So when should you say 'god jul', and what do you say after Christmas but before New Year?

US-Canadian pioneer member of Greenpeace, who was arrested in Greenland in July, will now spend Christmas with his sonsPaul Watson, the anti-whaling campaigner, has spoken of delight that he will be reunited with his young children for Christmas after Denmark rejected Japan’s extradition request and released him from prison in Greenland.After 150 days in […]

Denmark does not legally require motorists to use winter tyres (although this is set to change), but its neighbouring countries do. Here’s what you need to know about the requirements in Germany and Sweden.

Shah found guilty of gross fraud and given longest sentence for financial crime in country’s historyThe British businessman Sanjay Shah has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud against the Danish state – the longest sentence for a financial crime in the country’s history.Glostrup court on Thursday found Shah guilty of gross fraud, ruling […]