Denmark

Copenhagen gets prepared for marathon weekend, the most participated sport event of the year, with major traffic disruptions and thousands of people gathering; it also coincides with a major neighborhood festival with electronic music and street dancing

Copenhagen – Prague train is set to launch May 1; the direct line, with stops in Germany, will be available for the first time in over ten years and will be operated jointly by Czech, Danish and German railway operators

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called an early general election for 24 March; many read the move as an occasione to reenforce her power in relation to the recent standoff with US President Donald Trump over his designs on the territory of Greenland

Foreign nationals who come to Denmark to work are less likely to commit crimes than Danish citizens, concludes a CEPOS think tank report based on register data from Danmarks Statistik

Just 8% of Greenlanders believe it would be an advantage if Greenland became part of the United States, latest polls show, 76% reject the idea, while 16% say they do not know

A group of 237 women has completed training in AI, JavaScript, Python, cybersecurity, and cloud computing through a school that helps women and non-binary people with international backgrounds gain digital skills and enter the Danish labor market

A two-year project to get internationals involved with sports clubs will be launched by Danish Sports Federation with a dedicated person to coordinate the process; pilot initiatives will involve seven smaller federations opening up to new residents

Social Democrats in Denmark suffered a heavy loss in this week's municipal and regional elections; PM Mette Frederiksen’s centre-left party lost control of Copenhagen for first time in over 100 years

2025 is the year with the lowest number of asylum seekers; according to new figures from the Danish Immigration Service, 1.490 applications were filed in the first nine months of 2025, less than in the same period of the previous three years

Lowest marks will be removed from grading in all schools to reduce pressure on students and focus more on what they can do rather than their mistakes

The southern half of Copenhagen Light Rail will open to passengers tomorrow, with free tickets for the day, after years of work and traffic disruptions; the full line, from Ishøj to Lundtofte, is scheduled to open in summer 2026