Sources: Bloomberg
Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland form an international police hub in Stockholm to prevent escalating Swedish gang activity and criminal networks from spreading to other Nordic countries. 2024-08-14
Denmark announces that it will provide vaccines produced by Bavarian Nordic to persons who have been in close contact with monkeypox cases. 2022-05-24
Denmark's public service broadcaster DR reveals that the Danish Defence Intelligence Service helped the American National Security Agency spy on European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2012 to 2014. Intelligence was also collected on other officials from Germany, France, Sweden and Norway. 2021-05-31
Denmark bans travel to non-residents from South Africa over concerns of the 501.V2 variant. 2021-01-6
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announces that the country will impose a full nationwide lockdown from December 25 to January 3 that will close malls, shops, and other non-essential activities during the holiday season. This comes after a record of nearly 3,700 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours. 2020-12-16
Across Denmark, police arrest twenty Islamists who were planning attacks. Bomb materials were found in some of the houses during the raids. 2019-12-11
Archaeologists announce the discovery of a treasure haul potentially linked to 10th Century Danish King Harald Bluetooth in Rügen, Germany. The initial finds were made by amateur treasure hunters in January and the total haul is the largest of its type. 2018-04-16
For the first time in sixty years, a new Viking ring fortress is found, the fifth in present-day Denmark; it is located near the town of Køge and believed to have been founded by Harold Bluetooth. 2014-09-4
Transparency International releases its Corruption Perceptions Index showing Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore as the least corrupt nations and Somalia as the most corrupt. 2010-10-27
Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen carries out a major cabinet reshuffling, bringing in female ministers in charge of Defence and Foreign Affairs, the first in Denmark's history. 2010-02-23