Tag: Frederiksen

  • The Minister of Defense confirms that Denmark has now donated DKK 2 billion in military aid to Ukraine

    The Minister of Defense confirms that Denmark has now donated DKK 2 billion in military aid to Ukraine

    Minister of Defense Morten Bødskov confirmed yesterday that Denmark’s total expenditure on military donations to Ukraine has now reached DKK 2 billion – double what was previously thought. In April, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen confirmed plans to increase spending from 400 million to 1 billion kroner, and now it has shot up further. Believed to…

  • NATO chief comes to Copenhagen

    NATO chief comes to Copenhagen

    Gremlin and the KremlinFrederiksen said that the security situation in Europe has changed with Putin’s “brutal war in Ukraine”. “I look forward to meeting with NATO Secretary General and discussing how we can respond to Russia’s aggressive behavior in the future.” said Frederiksen. “And with Sweden and Finland wanting to join NATO, we are facing…

  • Denmark is increasing wind energy production in the North Sea

    Denmark is increasing wind energy production in the North Sea

    Unsubscribe in EsbjergThe 150 GW would be enough to supply green electricity to around 230 million European households and need over 1 trillion kroner in investment. “If we are to harvest all the possible wind from the North Sea, we have to do it together. The North Sea has a lot to offer, and therefore…

  • Prime Minister Modi urges Danish companies to invest in India

    Prime Minister Modi urges Danish companies to invest in India

    Berlin [Germany]May 3 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen interacted on Tuesday with top executives in India and Denmark, and during the meeting, Prime Minister Modi invited Danish companies to invest in India, said the newly appointed Foreign Minister Vinay Kwatra. Kwatra held a press conference at the end of…

  • New cabinet reshuffle as Minister of Justice resigns

    New cabinet reshuffle as Minister of Justice resigns

    Who comes first!?!?Meanwhile, the void from Tesfaye has been filled by Minister of the Interior and Housing Kaare Dybvad Bek, while Member of Parliament Christian Rabjerg Madsen is stepping in to replace Bek. As is customary, Frederiksen presents the new ministers to Queen Margrethe this morning. This is not the first time that Frederiksen has…

  • The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi is coming to Copenhagen

    The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi is coming to Copenhagen

    An influential giantShe also said she would discuss the ongoing conflict in Ukraine with Modi and reiterate Denmark’s position. “As an important member of the international community, India can play a significant role in making its influence count,” she said. The plan is for Modi to visit Queen Margrethe and the Crown Prince and Crown…

  • Denmark is increasing military aid to Ukraine

    Denmark is increasing military aid to Ukraine

    Hearts and minesWith the new commitment of DKK 600 million, the Danes have set aside DKK 1 billion to help boost Ukraine’s military since Russia invaded. In addition, Frederiksen said that Denmark will also assist Ukraine in clearing mines in areas that are again under Ukrainian control. This will help Ukraine rebuild areas that have…

  • The Danish Prime Minister visits Zelenskyy in Ukraine

    The Danish Prime Minister visits Zelenskyy in Ukraine

    According to the Prime Minister’s Office, Mette Frederiksen is in Ukraine today to meet the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Together with the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro SánchezFrederiksen will discuss a number of topics with Zelenskyy, including how Denmark can be able to assist in prosecuting war crimes – such as those committed in Bucha. “I…

  • About 400,000 homes to scrap gas stoves

    About 400,000 homes to scrap gas stoves

    More Danish gas?The initiative is just one element in the government’s Denmark can do more 2 ‘proposal, which the Prime Minister said will be presented after the Easter holidays. Other elements in the proposal will include building more sustainable energy sources – and making it faster – exporting green technology to promote efficient energy use…

  • More than 100 Danes have traveled to Ukraine to fight, the ambassador claims

    More than 100 Danes have traveled to Ukraine to fight, the ambassador claims

    On Sunday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba confirmed that more than 20,000 overseas people from 52 countries have volunteered to fight for Ukraine in a rapidly forming international entity. Most have already taken the trip there, including more than 100 from Denmark, as well as 100-150 from Norway. Ukraine accepts assistance from nationals of all…

  • Danes on their way to Ukraine to fight the Russians

    Danes on their way to Ukraine to fight the Russians

    Several Danish citizens have responded to the calls from the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, to non-Ukrainian military volunteers to join the conflict, TV2 informs. “It’s not just the Ukrainians’ battle – it’s a battle for all of us,” says Mads Emil Longhi, who is looking for a job from Vejle. With just three months…

  • Former ministers are launching attacks on the government for spying on spy scandals

    Former ministers are launching attacks on the government for spying on spy scandals

    In December, Denmark was shaken by a historic scandal in which the head of the Defense Intelligence Service (FE), Lars Findsen, was imprisoned for leaking highly classified state information. The exact charges – which Findsen called “crazy” – were not made public, so whether he leaked information to the media or to foreign agents is…

  • Denmark is stepping up defense co-operation with the United States

    Denmark is stepping up defense co-operation with the United States

    Another American foothold in Europe According to Frederiksen, the discussions leading up to the agreement have been a long process and do not reflect the current tensions between the West and Russia, even though it was something to consider. The Prime Minister pointed to a similar cooperation that the United States currently has with Norway.…

  • Ministerial musical chairs: PM presents latest reshuffle

    Ministerial musical chairs: PM presents latest reshuffle

    Presented to Queen Morten Bødskov will meanwhile change from the Ministry of Taxation to take over from Bramsen as Minister of Defense. Finally, Member of Parliament Jeppe Bruus gets his ministerial debut and takes over after Bødskov as the new Minister of Taxation. The new ministers were, in keeping with tradition, presented to Queen Margrethe…

  • Minister of Transport resigns in the wake of emissions drama

    Minister of Transport resigns in the wake of emissions drama

    Saturated features The void left behind Engelbrecht’s resignation has spurred Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to action, and she is expected to announce changes in her ministerial team at 11:00 today. This is not the first time that Frederiksen has been forced to move his ministerial team. At the end of 2020, Mogens Jensen stepped back…

  • SSI optimistic corona has peaked in the cities as the restrictions end in Denmark

    SSI optimistic corona has peaked in the cities as the restrictions end in Denmark

    Since midnight, corona has no longer been considered a socially critical disease in Denmark. Today, therefore, all of the country’s restrictions have been lifted, with the exception of a few requirements in areas where vulnerable people reside, such as hospitals and nursing homes. Nightclubs will be able to open, and restaurants and bars will be…

  • High number of children who were exposed to unpleasant internet experiences in Denmark last year

    High number of children who were exposed to unpleasant internet experiences in Denmark last year

    Normalized chaos Looking at the platforms where the negative experiences took place, Snapchat led by 49 percent, followed by Instagram (29), TikTok (20), Roblox (18) and Discord (16). “We were aware that there were enormous challenges in relation to digital violations of children and young people online, but we did not know exactly how widespread…

  • Third time lucky for Roskilde Festival # 50, as festivals are really starting to plan

    Third time lucky for Roskilde Festival # 50, as festivals are really starting to plan

    It’s a bit like Helsinki and the Olympics. It all started in 1938, when Japan declared that it was unable to host the 1940 Games (nothing suspicious about its withdrawal…). Helsinki stepped in wildly, only to be left behind when World War II began. The Finnish capital waited patiently and watched by the Soviets (with…

  • Corona passports are only valid for five months, the Ministry of Health recommends

    Corona passports are only valid for five months, the Ministry of Health recommends

    There will be no easing of the current coronary restrictions, it sounded yesterday after a meeting between Health Minister Magnus Heunicke with the political parties’ health rapporteurs – a day when a record 28,283 infected were announced. Nevertheless, the Ministry of Health is making some changes regarding the corona passport, which will in future only…

  • Mette’s wage threshold for foreign labor reconsidered: Government is open to action to address labor shortages

    Mette’s wage threshold for foreign labor reconsidered: Government is open to action to address labor shortages

    The Economist recently ranked Denmark’s economic performance in 2021 as the best out of 23 wealthy OECD countries, but its overall growth of 3.8 percent could have been even better if the government had made it easier for companies to recruit workers from countries without for the EU, claims e.g. Danish Industry and Danish Business.…

  • New restrictions leveled out for the culture and restaurant sector

    New restrictions leveled out for the culture and restaurant sector

    Eating and bachelorette parties Furthermore, restaurants, cafés and bars must stop selling alcohol at 22.00 and close down at. 23.00. There will also be a ban on the sale of alcohol in general from 22.00-05.00 and… – Indoor areas will be limited to 2 sqm per. sitting guest and 4 sqm for standing guests. –…

  • Several restrictions threaten as Denmark hits 10,000 daily COVID-19 cases

    Several restrictions threaten as Denmark hits 10,000 daily COVID-19 cases

    The government is considering imposing more restrictions as the number of new corona cases continues to rise. The latest figures from the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) showed that 9,999 cases were registered during the last 24 hours, which is a new record high. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen wrote on Facebook that she was in no…

  • Denmark’s international reputation was at stake under Minkgate, maintains PM

    Denmark’s international reputation was at stake under Minkgate, maintains PM

    During questioning at the witness stand yesterday, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen revealed that her primary motivation behind the rapid killing of the country’s mink in November 2020 was Denmark’s international reputation. She told prosecutor Jakob Lund Poulsen, in one of several tense exchanges between the couple on a day that started with protesters greeting the…

  • Performance Review: You would be crazy not to tell your friends about it

    Performance Review: You would be crazy not to tell your friends about it

    This year’s Crazy Christmas Cabaret was two years in the making and the evidence was in the script! ‘Tell Me About It’ had not just a surprising ending that perfectly hailed it as the 40th anniversary show, but a whole lot of twists that are more akin to an M Night Shyamalan movie, but without…

  • This week’s editorial: A tenth could be yours!

    This week’s editorial: A tenth could be yours!

    Ahead of the upcoming local elections on 16 November, the candidates for the seats in the municipalities ‘and regions’ councils are now smiling at us from the lampposts. International influence Only a few slogans are visible, but some stand out. In Gentofte, the former permanent secretary of the Ministry of Taxation, Peter Loft, now in…

  • The Danish government is concerned about the recent increase in corona cases

    The Danish government is concerned about the recent increase in corona cases

    The number of corona infections is rising sharply in Denmark right now. Yesterday afternoon, about 2,416 fresh cases were confirmed, and the number of inpatients is now 282, of which 40 is on intensive care. The warning signs have been there for a month now. Ever since temperatures began to fall sharply, forcing the population…

  • The Prime Minister convenes a press conference to insist that the deletion of text messages began months before Minkgate

    The Prime Minister convenes a press conference to insist that the deletion of text messages began months before Minkgate

    The Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen seems to like press conferences. In fact, she has called so many Friday nights that you would be forgiven for thinking she was enjoying the sadistic pleasure of eating our precious drinking time – especially journalists! Usually they are about the corona. Shutdowns, restrictions, severe gun calls that led…

  • Gray clouds over red block: Lead lost

    Gray clouds over red block: Lead lost

    To put it in context, in May 2020, the same parties were able to muster 60 percent of the votes in a poll by Voxmeter. – The measurement points in the direction that there is great movement in the electorate. It points in the direction that the blue parties have stabilized, says political commentator Hans…

  • The Prime Minister attends two days of climate summit in Glasgow

    The Prime Minister attends two days of climate summit in Glasgow

    The climate summit begins next week and continues until 12 November. – The climate is our most important and biggest challenge. It is now that we must act, and now we must deliver together. The global level of ambition must rise, the Prime Minister writes in the announcement and continues: – We must show the…

  • Defendant demands deadline for decision in Niels Holck case

    Defendant demands deadline for decision in Niels Holck case

    After almost five years, the Attorney General should now make a decision in the case of the Dane Niels Holck, who for a number of years has been the center of a diplomatic dispute between India and Denmark. This is what a letter from Niels Holck’s lawyer, Jonas Christoffersen, reads, which lands at the Court…

  • Parties neglect female front-runners

    Parties neglect female front-runners

    But she also stands out by being one of the few female mayors. Only in 14 of the 98 municipalities was it a woman who after the local elections in 2017 could sit in the mayor’s chair. The imbalance will remain largely unchanged after the local elections on 16 November, according to a forecast from…

  • Ministries fought for legal basis for the killing of mink

    The fight went on, for several weeks until the government summit on November 3 decided that all mink should be killed. On Friday, the Mink Commission saw an internal email from September 2020 from the special consultant Niels Torpegaard Christensen in the Ministry of Health. In it he writes that in his eyes there was…

  • The 10 minute check was in doubt about the mink title

    In the email from September 2020, the special consultant Niels Torpegaard Christensen describes that in his eyes there was a legal basis in the law on keeping animals, which belonged to the then Ministry of the Environment and Food. – I do not understand why we should enter the epidemic law. The law on keeping…