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 After the embattled Eva Kjer Hansen resigned as the enivornment and food minister over the weekend, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen announced a minor cabinet shake-up on Monday. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160229/danish-pm-announces-cabinet-shake-up Mon, 29 Feb 2016 14:17:19 +0100 danish-pm-announces-cabinet-shake-up Danish PM Lars Løkke Rasmussen said on Thursday that he is more likely to call for a new election than to fire his embattled environment and food minister, Eva Kjer Hansen. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160225/danish-pm-id-rather-call-election-than-fire-minister Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:27:36 +0100 danish-pm-id-rather-call-election-than-fire-minister Small support party the Conservatives on Wednesday stood by its threat to withdraw support for the government and force new elections if Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen failed to sack a cabinet minister in a row over agricultural reforms. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160224/pm-theatens-election-as-denmarks-hour-of-destiny-nears Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:31:05 +0100 pm-theatens-election-as-denmarks-hour-of-destiny-nears A new poll shows a “historic” drop in voter support for the Social Democrats, with eight of ten voters who jumped ship saying they left the party over its hard-line position on asylum and immigration. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160129/danes-flee-from-social-democrats-over-asylum-stance Fri, 29 Jan 2016 14:53:29 +0100 danes-flee-from-social-democrats-over-asylum-stance Business-friendly party Liberal Alliance on Monday threatened to topple the Venstre government if it doesn’t follow through with planned tax cuts. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160111/tax-reform-threatens-to-topple-danish-government Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:39:02 +0100 tax-reform-threatens-to-topple-danish-government The speaker of parliament, Pia Kjærsgaard, has blasted her fellow MPs for being too preoccupied with social media to pay attention to political debates. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151102/speaker-to-danish-politicians-put-away-your-phones Mon, 02 Nov 2015 12:26:32 +0100 speaker-to-danish-politicians-put-away-your-phones The government has released an overview of 182 law proposals it hopes to pass this session and a large number of them focus on foreigners in Denmark. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151007/denmark-eyes-package-of-immigration-law-changes Wed, 07 Oct 2015 10:40:03 +0200 denmark-eyes-package-of-immigration-law-changes In his opening address to parliament on Tuesday, Lars Løkke Rasmussen said that a decision to go along with the EU’s asylum and immigration policies would be put to Danes in a referendum. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151006/pm-guarantees-danes-a-say-in-asylum-policies Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:04:13 +0200 pm-guarantees-danes-a-say-in-asylum-policies The Danish government will not seek to stop paying out quarterly parental benefits to EU citizens living in Denmark despite Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s previous opposition to it, Jyllands-Posten reported on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150716/danish-govt-accused-of-flip-flopping-on-eu-benefits Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:09:07 +0200 danish-govt-accused-of-flip-flopping-on-eu-benefits Danes have little faith in their newly-elected government but still prefer the ‘blue bloc’ parties to the red, two new polls show. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150713/danes-rasmussen-will-be-a-bad-and-short-lived-pm Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:29:50 +0200 danes-rasmussen-will-be-a-bad-and-short-lived-pm UPDATED: Helle Thorning-Schmidt officially started Denmark's election cycle on Wednesday by making her opening arguments to Danes for four more years in power. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150527/danish-pm-to-call-for-election-media-reports Wed, 27 May 2015 10:24:55 +0200 danish-pm-to-call-for-election-media-reports This week marks PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt's last chance to call an election if she wants Danes to go to the polls before summer holidays and several inside sources say she's ready to pull the trigger. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150526/danish-election-rumours-hit-fever-pitch Tue, 26 May 2015 10:22:07 +0200 danish-election-rumours-hit-fever-pitch Sporting latex masks and known to interrupt parliament by breaking out in song, the Puppet Party is hoping to ride a wave of voter disenchantment into Christiansborg. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150414/danish-puppet-party-aims-for-parliament Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:15:18 +0200 danish-puppet-party-aims-for-parliament Radical Islam is "in the same family" as Nazism and must be "fought and eliminated", Conservative leaders said in launching an attention-grabbing campaign. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150414/danish-conservatives-go-after-nazi-islamism Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:39:28 +0200 danish-conservatives-go-after-nazi-islamism Danish poet of Palestinian heritage, Yahya Hassan, announced on Tuesday that he is entering politics and joining the new National Party (Nationalpartiet), saying he wants to help unite people in Denmark. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150407/danish-rebel-poet-enters-politics-joins-new-party Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:26:59 +0200 danish-rebel-poet-enters-politics-joins-new-party The new political party The Alternative has collected enough voter signatures to make the ballot while another new party, the National Party, is appealing for help to make its goal. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150224/danes-to-have-an-alternative-at-upcoming-election Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:52:00 +0100 danes-to-have-an-alternative-at-upcoming-election In a mock election for Danish eighth and ninth graders, centre-right parties cruised to victory in 78 of the nation's 98 municipalities. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150130/danish-youth-overwhelmingly-support-right-wing-parties Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:06:00 +0100 danish-youth-overwhelmingly-support-right-wing-parties The ruling Social Democrats and main opposition party Venstre are both out with new ad campaigns, but the PM's party denies it is gearing up for an election. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150104/video-ad-campaign-sets-stage-for-danish-elections Sun, 04 Jan 2015 10:38:00 +0100 video-ad-campaign-sets-stage-for-danish-elections With Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven forced to call a new election just three months into his term, Danish journalist and political commentator David Trads says the crisis reveals the strength of Denmark's coalition government. https://www.thelocal.dk/20141203/swedens-mess-highlights-denmarks-strength Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:44:00 +0100 swedens-mess-highlights-denmarks-strength She's been hammered by critics and already seemingly written off in the next election, but political commentator David Trads says Helle Thorning-Schmidt has delivered the goods while in office and deserves another term. https://www.thelocal.dk/20141201/in-defence-of-helle-thorning-schmidt Mon, 01 Dec 2014 21:29:00 +0100 in-defence-of-helle-thorning-schmidt