News round up

  • Denmark takes 200 quota refugees from Rwanda, Eritrea, Afghanistan

    Denmark will accept 200 refugees from Rwanda, Eritrea and Afghanistan in 2024 as part of the UN’s quota system. As last year, they will primarily be women and children, writes the Ministry of Immigration and Integration in a press release.Specifically, the quota will apply to refugees from Rwandan, Eritrean and Afghan camps, as well as […]


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  • International student achieves highest grade in Denmark with six A-levels

    Sheng Li, a student at Det Internationale Gymnasium at Niels Brock in Copenhagen has matriculated high school with the highest grade-average in Denmark.His score of 12.7 across six A-levels was hard won: for the three years of his studies, he would help his parents in their sushi restaurant after school each day before finishing homework and […]


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  • EU has got new leadership – Mette Frederiksen is not part of it

    Ursula von der Leyen continues as president of the European Commission. Kaja Kallas will become head of EU’s foreign affairs and Antonio Costa will become EU president.Two right-wing politicians from Germany and Estonia and a social democrat from Portugal.Two women and a man, the cabal has broken up. The Danish Prime Minister did not become […]


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  • Danish review company Trustpilot booms on London Stock Exchange

    In 2023, Trustpilot’s Danish subsidiary company achieved a turnover of more than one billion kroner, while its profits rose from 15 to 141 million kroner.The Danish-founded Trustpilot Group plc operates a review site for businesses worldwide on which almost 1 million new consumer reviews are posted each month.The company’s management called the result a “demonstration […]


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  • Denmark rescinds flagship frigates from NATO navy after missile failure

    Denmark will no longer contribute two warships to NATO’s standing naval force in the second half of 2024, after the air defence system aboard one of the frigates failed during a drone attack by Houthi pirates in the Red Sea in March.“The challenges that the crew of the Iver Huitfeldt experienced during the mission in […]


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  • More than 5000 children in Copenhagen live in poverty

    There are 5,036 poor children in Copenhagen. These new figures come from the Municipality of Copenhagen, writes TV2 Kosmopol.Just under half of the city’s poor children live in either Brønshøj-Husum, Bispebjerg or Nørrebro. While Østerbro is one of the places in the capital where the fewest poor children live – according to the report.“When you […]


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  • Novo Nordisk announces partial hiring freeze

    Denmark’s largest and currently most successful company, Novo Nordisk, is introducing a partial hiring freeze. This is done to protect the company culture, writes Finans.Novo Nordisk has experienced a giant surge in the number of employees, as the company has significantly expanded its business to keep up with the demand for diabetes drug Ozempic and […]


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  • Record number of travellers at Copenhagen Airport this summer

    Between June and August this year, Copenhagen Airport is expecting to hit a record number of travellers.Up to nine million passengers are expected to take off and land on the runways of the biggest travel hub in the Nordics, according to a Copenhagen Airport press release.That figure exceeds by over a million last summer’s total […]


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  • Denmark issues DKK 80 billion humanitarian aid package to Gaza and the West Bank

    The Danish government has issued a new humanitarian support package for Gaza and the West Bank of DKK 80 million.Since October, more than 37,000 Palestinians in the Gaza strip have been killed in Israeli military air and artillery strikes, according to Palestinian health authorities, while the majority of the country’s population suffers from ongoing food […]


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  • Training of Ukrainian pilots on Danish soil will stop after 2024

    By the end of the year, Ukrainian soldiers will no longer be trained to fly F-16 fighter jets in Denmark, said Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen at a press conference on Monday with Norway’s Defense Minister, Bjørn Arild Gram.This is out of “respect for” the fact that Denmark is transitioning to F-35 combat aircraft, for […]


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  • Euro 24: Denmark through after yet another draw – Germany awaits on Saturday

    Denmark has not won a game at Euro 24 in Germany. Neither has Denmark lost after three group matches. That will change on Saturday, when the hosts and favorites Germany await in a showdown in Dortmund.A goalless and uneventful draw against Serbia was enough for Denmark to finish second in Group C, which sadly featured […]


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  • Novo Nordisk gets Wegovy approved in China – stock hits a new record

    Novo Nordisk’s popular weight loss drug Wegovy has been approved for the treatment of severe obesity in China.“We can confirm that Wegovy has been approved in China for the treatment of severe obesity or obesity with at least one weight-related comorbidity,” Novo Nordisk writes to Ritzau.China has previously been described as a market that could […]


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