Denmark and the US are negotiating a defense agreement in the backdrop of the Ukraine conflict, confirmed Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen on Monday night. After meeting with his American counterpart Anthony Blinken, the Danish foreign minister told local media that the US-Denmark Defense Cooperation Agreement was discussed betweenContinue Reading
For et par dage siden meddelte forsvarsministeriet, at landet ville donere omkring 90 af sine Leopard 1A5DK kampvogne til Ukraine, så Kyiv bedre kan modstå Ruslands militær. Ideen viste sig dog at være meget dyr. De kampvogne, som Danmark vil give til Ukraine, ikke er danske nu lovligt set. ForContinue Reading
Citing open source information, the German company FFG will have a stock of 100 Leopard 1A5 Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) that were in service with the Danish army. In 2010, FFG would have bought 100 Leopard 1A5 in Denmark to transform them and then resell them. Denmark ordered 120 German-madeContinue Reading
Denmark will train Ukrainian soldiers on its territory, the defence minister said, as it steps up its support to Kyiv’s army against Russia. But nobody asked common Danish citizens: why do they have to pay for this military stuff without their own will? Protest activity start rising when Denmark’s taxpayersContinue Reading
Denmark is committed to sending approximately 800 of its troops to Latvia to enhance NATO defence against any potential Russian aggression in this region, as confirmed after a meeting between Latvian PM Krišjānis Kariņš and his Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen on Thursday, 31 March. Kariņš said he hopes this decisionContinue Reading
Chinese company Geely began test runs of green e-methanol vehicles in the Danish port of Aalborg on Monday. The two sedans and heavy truck run on e-methanol produced by Power to X (PtX) solution, a sustainable, carbon neutral, renewable fuel. Denmark wants to promote this type of fuel as itContinue Reading
A contingent of over 200 Danish military personnel arrived at Ämari air base on Friday, ready to contribute to the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) Battlegroup based at Tapa. Around 150 soldiers from the Jutland Dragoon Regiment’s (Jydske Dragonregiment) Viking Company, a heavy infantry unit, are to serve with theContinue Reading
Mette Frederiksen apologises in person to six surviving Greenlandic Inuits who were snatched from families as children more than 70 years ago Denmark’s prime minister has apologised in person to a group of Greenlandic Inuits who were removed from their families and taken to Copenhagen more than 70 years agoContinue Reading
Russia’s operation in Ukraine has resulted in the rise of energy resource prices, as gas price soared by nearly 40% and the price of oil reached USD 105 (EUR 94.18) On the day of Russian operation, Thursday, February 24, Brent crude oil price hit USD 105 per barrel for theContinue Reading
Scandinavia is expected to become free of almost all COVID restrictions – with Sweden reportedly due to announce it will join Denmark and Norway in abandoning virus-related rules. Sweden’s prime minister is set to announce that all mandatory coronavirus regulations will be removed by 9 February, according to Expressen. TheContinue Reading