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 government has bowed to pressure from its left-of-centre parliamentary allies, and agreed to a new, challenging target to bring greenhouse gas emissions to half 1990 levels by 2025. https://www.thelocal.dk/20210507/danish-government-agrees-under-pressure-to-more-ambitious-2025-climate-goal Fri, 07 May 2021 16:31:07 +0200 danish-government-agrees-under-pressure-to-more-ambitious-2025-climate-goal Denmark's government is to force all government canteens to go vegetarian two days a week in a move to reduce national consumption of meat. https://www.thelocal.dk/20201030/danish-state-canteens-to-serve-vegetarian-food-only-twice-a-week Fri, 30 Oct 2020 08:55:30 +0100 danish-state-canteens-to-serve-vegetarian-food-only-twice-a-week Denmark's finance minister has said he expects the country's economy to shrink by between 3 and 6 percent in 2020 as a result of measures taken to control the coronavirus pandemic. https://www.thelocal.dk/20200409/denmark-in-one-of-darkest-chapters-in-its-economic-history-finance-minister Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:30:51 +0200 denmark-in-one-of-darkest-chapters-in-its-economic-history-finance-minister Denmark's finance ministry has announced plans to spend up to 40bn Danish kroner ($6bn) to help companies hit by the coronavirus crisis to cover their fixed costs until cash flow resumes. https://www.thelocal.dk/20200318/denmark-to-cover-up-to-80-percent-of-companies-fixed-costs-through-coronavirus-crisis Wed, 18 Mar 2020 16:58:10 +0100 denmark-to-cover-up-to-80-percent-of-companies-fixed-costs-through-coronavirus-crisis Plans to do Defence Minister Nicolai Wammen harm led police to arrest and charge two men. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150326/danish-police-arrest-two-over-defence-minister-plot Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:52:41 +0100 danish-police-arrest-two-over-defence-minister-plot