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Gus Murray: the face of David Cameron’s immigration policy
Well, not quite, but figuratively speaking… Bear with me. The gentleman pictured is Gus Murray (on Twitter here), an Australian currently resident in Denmark. He’s a graduate of Copenhagen Business...
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Danish Marmite ban – not Pia Kjærsgaard’s next populist plan to keep...
Today’s Guardian has the story that Denmark is to ban Marmite. As the FT’s Stanley Pignal quipped on Twitter, is this the next step (after new customs controls, despite Schengen) from Denmark’s...
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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 as a politics nerd in the UK, you would be...
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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 me...
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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 paper. This is a picture of the...
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Study of Members of the Folketing on Twitter – Danish politics has a long way...
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 how members...
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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 mob (I’ve even been on a bus in...
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Non-Schengen (or non-Danish law?) compliant border control at Padborg, 16th...
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 plan...
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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 speaking Danish...
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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 case.] The Danish...
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The rise of the right in Denmark and Sweden
NOTE: if you’re arrived here thanks to the seven59.dk post about this programme, this is NOT a blog that is in ANY WAY associated with the programme. These are my own thoughts as a listener to the...
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The Nordic online politics way
The diagramme above comes from an excellent report entitled “The Nordic Way” [PDF], produced by Swedish think tank Global Utmaning, and linked from this Bagehot piece about the Nordic countries. The...
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Gus Murray: the face of David Cameron’s immigration policy
Well, not quite, but figuratively speaking… Bear with me. The gentleman pictured is Gus Murray (on Twitter here), an Australian currently resident in Denmark. He’s a graduate of Copenhagen Business...
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Danish Marmite ban – not Pia Kjærsgaard’s next populist plan to keep...
Today’s Guardian has the story that Denmark is to ban Marmite. As the FT’s Stanley Pignal quipped on Twitter, is this the next step (after new customs controls, despite Schengen) from Denmark’s...
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