The Latest Breaking News from Denmark

Polling reveals cool attitude to accession of Georgia and some western Balkan states, and opposition to admitting Turkey

As countries at the COP28 climate talks are wrangling over deadlines for lowering their carbon dioxide emissions, a Danish-led group of countries has decided to set the ultimate goal: to remove more CO2 from the atmosphere than they emit

‘We cannot negotiate with nature’ says Denmark’s climate minister as talks to phase out fossil fuels hang in balance

Deutsche Welle reports on today's actions: The Danish parliament on Thursday approved legislation that would effectively prohibit Quran burnings in the northern European country. The law criminalizes the "inappropriate treatment of writings with significant importance for a recognized religious community." The bill was passed with 94 votes in favor by…

String of incidents where Islamic text was burned in Denmark and Sweden prompted intensively debated bill

Those who break the law – which forbids publicly burning, tearing or defiling holy texts – risk a fine or imprisonment.

Bill comes after string of burnings that sparked protests in Muslim countries. The new rules will also protect other holy texts

A British hedge fund trader extradited from the United Arab Emirates to Denmark where he was wanted for allegedly orchestrating a more than 9 billion kroner ($1.3 billion) tax fraud has been ordered to remain in custody until his Jan. 3 trial

A new law has been passed in Denmark’s parliament that makes it illegal to desecrate any holy text in the country