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Resistance from the current Employment Minister to the idea of making it easier for internationals to come to Denmark

According to Ane Halsboe Jørgensen, the current Minister of Employment, infamous for having earlier closed the English-speaking programs at the university colleges, the government should...

The Parliament is not ready for simultaneous interpretation

Before the summer holidays, a member of the Danish Parliament spoke Greenlandic in plenary, much to everyone’s surprise. Since then, a debate has been...

26.8 billion DKK investment in carbon capture and storage

A majority of the political parties in Parliament agreed to support a major 15-year investment in carbon capture storage technology. The goal is to capture at...

Who should pay for the CO2 emissions from food production – the farmers or the consumers?

The local leaders of Venstre (Liberals) started to advocate for a tax on agricultural produce instead of a tax on agriculture. They consider that consumers should...

Internal conflict in Alternativet (Green)

There is a conflict between the Green members of the Parliament. Five of them want to exclude the sixth, Theresa Scavenius. It seems that Theresa has, in several...