The Local Denmark https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Denmark in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Denmark’s great flagpole mystery solved A government directive to public institutions to report their number of flagpoles led to mass confusion and more than just a bit of derision earlier this month, but now the prime minister has offered an explanation. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160122/denmarks-great-flagpole-mystery-solved Fri, 22 Jan 2016 10:27:54 +0100 denmarks-great-flagpole-mystery-solved Denmark wants to count all of its flagpoles The Danish Finance Ministry has asked all public institutions to report how many flagpoles they have in a move slammed as “an idiotic bit of bureaucracy”. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160112/denmark-wants-to-count-all-of-its-flagpoles Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:19:12 +0100 denmark-wants-to-count-all-of-its-flagpoles