Denmark’s possible EU Patent Court referendum – an opportunity?
[Please note: this is not a piece about referendums in general, and nor does it call into question my overall position as a referendum-sceptic. It relates to a very specific Danish...
Tag Archives: Denmark
Denmark is where I live. But I think it will never be home.
It was a normal enough Copenhagen situation; that’s what makes it frustrating. I was introduced to some friends of my partner’s in Copenhagen yesterday evening. Two of them persisted in…
Non-Schengen (or non-Danish law?) compliant border control at Padborg, 16th January 2013, 0651
Back in spring 2011, when Denmark still had a centre right government supported in parliament by the populist Dansk Folkeparti, the country drew sharp criticism from the European Commission with a…
Odd and cool videos about Denmark
A few things roughly related to Denmark that I’ve come across recently… Via @sorenhave – a fun way to advertise a bus company Reminded by @iaindale – a bus flash…
Study of Members of the Folketing on Twitter – Danish politics has a long way to go
Following my post about European Commissioners on Twitter, and suggestions to get Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt onto the network, I thought I would next do a brief study of…
So who attends a Presidency press trip?
One of my questions before arriving in Copenhagen was: who are the others who are attending the Danish Presidency press trip? Now I have the answer – albeit only on…
Nordic bloc politics – the solution for a fractured left?
A Twitter exchange this afternoon with @olafcramme and @anthonypainter (shown in the screenshot to the right) in light of both Thursday’s election in Denmark and today’s Berlin state election got…
UK media seems to have forgotten there’s an election happening in Denmark
An election was called 2 days ago in Denmark (there’s a Wikipedia page about it here), and the vote will take place in 18 days, on 15th September. Yet even…
