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 The European Court of Justice on Thursday said it was up to Denmark's courts to decide whether a Danish law requiring authorities to redevelop poor urban "ghettos" with high concentrations of "non-Western immigrants and their descendants" was discriminatory. https://www.thelocal.dk/20251218/residents-from-danish-housing-area-hope-for-win-in-landmark-eu-discrimination-case Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:46:19 +0100 residents-from-danish-housing-area-hope-for-win-in-landmark-eu-discrimination-case Danish requirements for housing areas to reduce the number of ‘non-Western’ immigrants under social laws are discriminatory, the Court of Justice of the European Union is set to rule. https://www.thelocal.dk/20250213/eu-court-likely-to-rule-denmarks-parallel-society-laws-discriminatory Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:43:36 +0100 eu-court-likely-to-rule-denmarks-parallel-society-laws-discriminatory A national plan to tackle racism in Denmark is close to being presented after several years in the making. https://www.thelocal.dk/20250115/what-is-in-denmarks-forthcoming-action-plan-against-racism Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:06:03 +0100 what-is-in-denmarks-forthcoming-action-plan-against-racism The Council of Europe has urged Denmark to adopt a national action plan against racism, including increasing the number of Muslims who work as teachers and police officers. https://www.thelocal.dk/20241015/denmark-urged-by-council-of-europe-to-rethink-parallel-societies-policy Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:46:52 +0200 denmark-urged-by-council-of-europe-to-rethink-parallel-societies-policy Morten Messerschmidt, the leader of the populist far-right Danish People’s Party, has been charged with racism over a 2023 social media post. https://www.thelocal.dk/20241008/leader-of-far-right-danish-party-to-face-racism-charge Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:04:00 +0200 leader-of-far-right-danish-party-to-face-racism-charge Denmark failed to take effective measures against racist hate speech when it dropped an investigation into an art exhibition depicting "racist hate images" nearly a decade ago, a UN watchdog said Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.dk/20230208/un-committee-faults-denmark-for-stopping-probe-of-racist-art-exhibit Wed, 08 Feb 2023 10:14:24 +0100 un-committee-faults-denmark-for-stopping-probe-of-racist-art-exhibit Denmark has this week announced what it terms ‘plans of action’ against racism and antisemitism. What changes could the plans bring about? https://www.thelocal.dk/20220125/what-are-denmarks-racism-and-antisemitism-action-plans Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:59:48 +0100 what-are-denmarks-racism-and-antisemitism-action-plans Member of the Danish parliament Sikandar Siddique and his parents were the target of racist verbal abuse during the assembly’s annual reopening day on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.dk/20211007/danish-politician-target-of-racist-abuse-outside-parliament Thu, 07 Oct 2021 15:54:33 +0200 danish-politician-target-of-racist-abuse-outside-parliament Tightened legislation introduced in 2017 against begging has so far exclusively resulted in convictions of foreign citizens, raising concerns about police discrimination. https://www.thelocal.dk/20180704/denmarks-anti-begging-law-only-convicted-against-foreigners-report Wed, 04 Jul 2018 13:06:56 +0200 denmarks-anti-begging-law-only-convicted-against-foreigners-report An association for renters of garden allotments has proposed new applicants should not be accepted unless they speak Danish, citing communication problems. https://www.thelocal.dk/20180601/allotment-association-proposes-members-must-speak-danish Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:14:38 +0200 allotment-association-proposes-members-must-speak-danish The Aarhus City Council on Wednesday night voted overwhelmingly to scrap a nearly ten-year old gender-separated weekly programme at a public swimming hall. https://www.thelocal.dk/20170202/aarhus-bans-popular-women-only-swimming-session Thu, 02 Feb 2017 12:01:19 +0100 aarhus-bans-popular-women-only-swimming-session With Denmark once again engaged in a national conversation about what makes one ‘Danish’, Queen Margrethe II told German newspaper Der Spiegel that she represents “all people who are citizens of the Danish nation”. https://www.thelocal.dk/20161004/queen-margrethe-denmark-not-a-multicultural-country Tue, 04 Oct 2016 02:57:17 +0200 queen-margrethe-denmark-not-a-multicultural-country A Danish school was criticised on Wednesday for limiting the number of students from ethnic minorities in some of its classes, in a bid to prevent students from a Danish background from leaving it. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160907/danish-school-under-fire-for-ethnic-quota-classes Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:40:43 +0200 danish-school-under-fire-for-ethnic-quota-classes It’s a lot easier to find housing in Denmark if your name is Jens Jensen instead of Hazim Aswad. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150424/discrimination-rampant-in-danish-housing-market Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:25:47 +0200 discrimination-rampant-in-danish-housing-market Danish hair stylists and barbers can continue to charge different prices for men and women after Eastern High Court rules that gender-based pricing is not discriminatory. https://www.thelocal.dk/20141110/gender-based-haircut-prices-not-discriminatory-high-court Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:05:00 +0100 gender-based-haircut-prices-not-discriminatory-high-court