Section: Denmark
Løkke, Løkke laughs at the White House
According to US President Barack Obama, the search for the host of next year’s White House correspondents’ dinner is over. Step forward Lars Løkke Rasmussen. The Danish PM was in fine form at a state dinner for the five leaders of the Nordic nations at the White House on May 13, rattling off a series of one- liners. Weighty comedy...
150 Danish soldiers to be stationed in Estonia to ward off Russian advances
Some 150 Danish soldiers will join a British-led coalition of over 6,000 NATO forces in Estonia to halt Russia’s advances in the region, Politiken reports. They will help to deter Russia from continuing its aggressive security policies in the region – the same policies that have recently led to the war in eastern Ukraine and the annexation...
International News in Brief: Danish PM heads to Greenland with European Council President
Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the Danish prime minister, will meet in Copenhagen on Tuesday with Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council to discuss handling of the challenges facing the EU, including the refugee crisis and the Russia/Ukraine conflict. Following the Copenhagen meeting, Rasmussen and Tusk will travel to Greenland to examine the...
Hopeless Hilda ensures Eurovision drama continues
It’s hard to know what’s worse about Hilda Heick’s admission that she cocked up her voting slip as a member of Denmark’s Eurovision Song Contest jury on Saturday night. Getting her choices in the wrong order so her favourite song received the fewest points is pretty diabolical, but actually designating the eventual winner...
Carlsberg gaining inroads in eastern Europe
The Danish brewery Carlsberg posted a financial report for the first quarter today without out too many surprises. The beer producer saw a 2 percent increase in organic turnover growth to 13 billion kroner and has maintained its expectations for the rest of the year, thanks in part to a 20 percent growth in the eastern European market. “We...
Straight, No Chaser: Full of the joys of spring
In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of … industrial-scale tax fiddling? Brexit? Another potentially disastrous open-ended war in the Middle East? An economic downturn? Donald Trump being elected US president? As the Bard put it: “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,” and how right he was. Bothersome Brexit...
Eurovision no contest: From laughing stock to top of the pops
Ahead of next week’s Eurovsion Song Contest in Stockholm, it’s worth remembering that it wasn’t long ago that the Nordics were the laughing stock of the continent. ‘Norway, nul point’ was the reoccurring joke – based on them finishing last in the contest a staggering 11 times, and on four occasions failing to score a...
Globe to Globe Hamlet comes home to Helsingør
After two years of travelling the world, covering over 308,835 km, the Globe to Globe Hamlet made its way to Kronborg Castle last Thursday, as Denmark became the 195th country on the ambitious world tour. Helsingør – the true home of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark – was the penultimate stop before ending up back at the Globe in London on April 23, an...
Clutching onto their vision on the road from Capetown to Copenhagen
Italian astrophysicist Mary Sini and Ukrainian political scientist Natalka Hansen were neighbours in Cape Town. Kindred spirits, they quickly bonded and formulated plans for a sustainable fashion brand based on the artisan manufacturing of South African ostrich leather. From the Cape to CPH While South African ostriches exclusively provided the...
The land of the smiling sun
Designed in April 1975 by Anne Lund in collaboration with fellow Danish activist Søren Lisberg, the ‘Smiling Sun’ logo soon became internationally synonymous with the anti-nuclear power movement. Emblazoned with the boldly lettered slogan “Atomkraft? – Nej tak!” (Nuclear power? – No thanks!), the cheerful, vividly-coloured logo came to be...
