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 Mink fur breeders in Denmark will no longer influence the amount paid out in compensation to fellow breeders whose farms were closed during the Covid pandemic, the government has said. https://www.thelocal.dk/20240412/denmark-ejects-mink-breeders-from-compensation-committees Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:20:42 +0200 denmark-ejects-mink-breeders-from-compensation-committees An investigation by a Danish media has suggested the government has overvalued compensation to mink fur breeders whose businesses were closed during the Covid-19 pandemic. https://www.thelocal.dk/20240408/danish-mink-fur-breeders-received-too-much-compensation Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:46:23 +0200 danish-mink-fur-breeders-received-too-much-compensation Authorities in Denmark have begun the ‘largest demolition job in the country’s modern history’ to tear down disused mink fur farms, three years after a government order to cull the country’s captive population of the animals during the Covid-19 pandemic. https://www.thelocal.dk/20231113/denmark-demolishes-mink-farms-three-years-after-controversial-shutdown Mon, 13 Nov 2023 16:23:48 +0100 denmark-demolishes-mink-farms-three-years-after-controversial-shutdown After a controversial cull of all minks in Denmark due to a coronavirus variant, the world's former top exporter will once again allow mink farming, the agriculture ministry announced on Friday. https://www.thelocal.dk/20220923/denmark-lifts-covid-ban-on-mink-farming Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:42:03 +0200 denmark-lifts-covid-ban-on-mink-farming The Ministry of Justice has published new temporary rules for storage of text messages at ministries following controversy by an official inquiry. https://www.thelocal.dk/20220707/denmark-issues-ban-on-ministers-and-officials-from-deleting-texts Thu, 07 Jul 2022 16:44:55 +0200 denmark-issues-ban-on-ministers-and-officials-from-deleting-texts An independent commission tasked with investigating government decisions surrounding the 2020 culling of millions of Danish fur farm mink released its final report on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.dk/20220701/what-did-danish-mink-inquiry-conclude-and-what-happens-next Fri, 01 Jul 2022 13:36:12 +0200 what-did-danish-mink-inquiry-conclude-and-what-happens-next An official inquiry has found that Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen “grossly misled” at a November 4th 2020 press briefing when she announced that all Denmark’s captive mink population must be culled, according to initial reports of the commission’s findings. https://www.thelocal.dk/20220630/danish-pm-grossly-misled-during-2020-mink-announcement Thu, 30 Jun 2022 16:20:56 +0200 danish-pm-grossly-misled-during-2020-mink-announcement A significant number of mink breeders and persons connected to the mink fur farming industry in Denmark did not take tests for Covid-19 in 2020, despite requests by authorities to do so amid concerns about the spread of the virus in the animals. https://www.thelocal.dk/20220616/half-of-denmarks-mink-breeders-did-not-take-covid-19-tests-despite-requests Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:08:21 +0200 half-of-denmarks-mink-breeders-did-not-take-covid-19-tests-despite-requests A resumption of Denmark's banned mink farming poses little risk of Covid virus variants emerging, the country's public health institute said Tuesday in a report that could lead to the industry's revival. https://www.thelocal.dk/20220504/danish-health-agency-says-mink-farming-poses-low-covid-19-risk Wed, 04 May 2022 10:56:58 +0200 danish-health-agency-says-mink-farming-poses-low-covid-19-risk Around one percent of all mink breeders have applied for money to be able to keep their businesses dormant and then continue operations, if mink breeding is allowed again in Denmark, according to the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration. This equates to just 13 mink breeders who may open their businesses again. https://www.thelocal.dk/20220402/one-percent-of-mink-breeders-applying-for-money-to-resume-business Sat, 02 Apr 2022 19:44:36 +0200 one-percent-of-mink-breeders-applying-for-money-to-resume-business Danish health authorities said Thursday they had discovered an illegal mink farm, a practice banned after the country controversially culled farmed minks nationwide last year over fears of a new coronavirus strain. https://www.thelocal.dk/20211223/danish-authorities-bust-second-illegal-mink-farm Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:17:57 +0100 danish-authorities-bust-second-illegal-mink-farm Denmark’s Veterinary and Food Administration (Fødevarestyrelsen) on Wednesday put down 126 minks which were being bred at a North Jutland farm in breach of a current ban on the industry. https://www.thelocal.dk/20211215/danish-authorities-cull-126-minks-at-illegal-fur-farm Wed, 15 Dec 2021 15:25:57 +0100 danish-authorities-cull-126-minks-at-illegal-fur-farm Police escorted Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s car away from the court in Frederiksberg on Thursday after demonstrators damaged a rear light and encircled the vehicle. https://www.thelocal.dk/20211209/protestors-damage-danish-pms-car-during-hearing Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:12:48 +0100 protestors-damage-danish-pms-car-during-hearing A parliamentary commission is to grill Denmark's prime minister Mette Frederiksen on Thursday over her government's illegal decision last year to cull all farmed minks nationwide over fears of a new coronavirus strain. https://www.thelocal.dk/20211209/denmarks-prime-minister-faces-inquiry-over-decision-to-cull-minks Thu, 09 Dec 2021 13:35:59 +0100 denmarks-prime-minister-faces-inquiry-over-decision-to-cull-minks Owners of Danish mink fur farms are to sue the state for 600 million kroner in compensation for the decision in late 2020 to cull all minks in the country due to concerns related to Covid-19 transmission in the animals. https://www.thelocal.dk/20211122/danish-mink-breeders-to-sue-state-over-2020-culling Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:00:28 +0100 danish-mink-breeders-to-sue-state-over-2020-culling The Ministry of Justice announced in a statement on Tuesday evening that SMS messages sent by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen or her staff in relation to the decision to cull fur farm minks in November 2020 could not be recovered. https://www.thelocal.dk/20211118/danish-government-criticised-over-post-election-mink-text-announcement Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:51:51 +0100 danish-government-criticised-over-post-election-mink-text-announcement Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says she will answer central questions over deleted text messages relating to the government’s decision to cull fur farm mink in 2020. https://www.thelocal.dk/20211101/danish-prime-minister-promises-answers-over-deleted-mink-texts Mon, 01 Nov 2021 18:32:03 +0100 danish-prime-minister-promises-answers-over-deleted-mink-texts Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen came under fire on Thursday for deleting text messages related to last year's illegal culling of farmed minks over coronavirus fears. https://www.thelocal.dk/20211028/deleted-texts-plague-danish-government-in-mink-inquiry Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:56:08 +0200 deleted-texts-plague-danish-government-in-mink-inquiry Denmark, formerly the world's leading exporter of mink fur, says it plans to extend a ban on farming them for another year after the its controversial cull of all minks last year over a mutated strain of the coronavirus.  https://www.thelocal.dk/20210929/denmark-government-backs-extension-of-ban-on-mink-farming Wed, 29 Sep 2021 12:37:16 +0200 denmark-government-backs-extension-of-ban-on-mink-farming Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is to be questioned later this year by an official inquiry into her government’s decision to cull all farmed mink in Denmark. https://www.thelocal.dk/20210921/danish-pm-frederiksen-to-be-questioned-over-covid-19-mink-culls Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:10:33 +0200 danish-pm-frederiksen-to-be-questioned-over-covid-19-mink-culls