Sources: Bloomberg
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights reports significant increases (as much as 1200%) in reported antisemitic incidents in countries such as Austria, Sweden, Denmark, and Belgium since the Israel–Hamas war began. 2024-07-11
Far-right protesters set fire to copies of the Quran outside the Egyptian and Turkish embassies in Copenhagen, Denmark, prompting outrage from Muslim-majority countries. 2023-07-25
President Egils Levits tests positive for COVID-19 after returning from a trip to Denmark and Sweden despite being fully vaccinated, prompting his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto to self-isolate. 2021-10-14
Denmark becomes the first country to exclude the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from its vaccination programme over a potential link to a rare but serious form of thrombosis. 2021-05-3
Denmark extends its hard lockdown until January 17 due to substantial increases in numbers of cases and hospitalizations in the country. 2020-12-29
Germany closes its borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and Luxembourg. 2020-03-15
Danish police state that there is no evidence that a small explosives blast in a Copenhagen hotel ties into a larger terror plot. 2010-09-12
Denmark has a political taxes scandal involving a "big and sloppy error" by Social Democrats leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt. 2010-08-3
A second Danish pharmaceutical company, Leo Pharma, suspends sales of medical products in Greece over the government's decision to reduce the cost of medicine there. The government condemns these acts as "unfair". 2010-05-30
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