Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and Beyond
Denmark is ready to send a combat battalion of 800 troops to reinforce Latvia, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said while visiting the Danish continent of 200 troops in Tapa in neighbouring Estonia on 31 March. Featured photo: One of […]
Danish gas consumption can be entirely green by 2027, and completely independent of Russia. The sector organisation Biogas Danmark says the Scandinavian country has plenty of resources to make it happen. “Danish biogas can phase out fossil gas consumption in […]
Russia has taken renewed interest in the island of Bornholm, strategically located in the Baltic Sea, and part of Denmark. 76 years after the last Soviet troops left, Moscow still feels it has a say in what happens on the […]
Building outposts far away from the mainland has always been done for projection of power, for military or economical gains, often at the costs of the people or the lands of what started as small settlements. The imperialism of the […]
Almost half of the Danish marriages fail. Divorcing is easy, but for those with children the Danish government now requires a test to give marriage another change. It was a piece of cake to divorce in Denmark. You sent a […]
Denmark is growing, without spending money or launching a military operation. 63 acres of land has been added to the country, by 11 islands as a gift from mother Nature. Sea flow and cluttering of sand, e.g. after storms, have […]
All immigrants in separate classes. This kind of segregation is the solution to keep schools diverse, a principal of a school in Aarhus, Denmark, argues. His reason: there will be no whites (sorry, native Danes?) left otherwise. This rather special […]
From 2012 on the Danish government plans to levy more taxes on popular products such as beer, sweets, soft drinks, chocolate, cigarettes, and from 2013 also on jam and ketchup. Danish Finance Minister Bjarne Corydon presented the state budget on […]
Dutch, German and Norwegian fighter planes must protect Danish airspace, so that Denmark itself can get its financial affairs in order. Danish Defence Minister Nick Haekkerup on Saturday in an interview with the Danish newspaper Politiken. “Just as we arrange […]
More than a month after the heaviest rainfall in 400 years, the Danish capital Copenhagen is still struggling with the aftermath. Since Friday, the municipal council urgently advices all residents in the centre and surrounding districts to boil their drinking […]