Women marched through the Dutch town of Apeldoorn this weekend to protest plans for a new asylum seeker centre (AZC), warning that mass immigration and the placement of large groups of male asylum seekers are making women feel increasingly unsafe while local residents are ignored.
Protesters said politicians and the media routinely dismiss concerns about crime, harassment, and women’s safety linked to mass immigration and the placement of asylum seekers near residential areas.
I spent a good while living in Denmark last year, and something struck me pretty much straight away. I would see it in cafés, in museums, in swing parks with my daughter, on the trains, even queuing at a supermarket checkout… everywhere. They carry themselves differently, the Danes. They seem to glide about, elf-like, tall and composed and utterly at ease with themselves. They speak plainly, and if they laugh, it is without checking themselves. They didn’t seem to be performing a version of who they thought they should be. They simply were, and it was beautiful to see.
In one telling of the story, the golden fields of a proud farming nation are under attack. Besieged by an industrial sprawl of solar panels, they are being smothered at the behest of an urban elite.
That narrative has failed to thrive in conservative heartlands such as Texas and Hungary, which have embraced solar power while lambasting green rules. But it is taking root in Denmark, the most climate-ambitious nation on Earth. “We say yes to fields of wheat,” said Inger Støjberg, the leader of the rightwing populist Denmark Democrats in a speech in 2024. “And we say no to fields of iron!”
Danish soldiers will be required to shoot first and ask questions later if the United States invades Greenland, under the army’s rules of engagement.
On Wednesday, the Danish defence ministry confirmed the existence of a 1952 rule requiring soldiers to “immediately” counter-attack invading forces without awaiting orders.
The defence ministry also said that the rule “remains in force” when asked about its status by Berlingske, a centre-Right Danish newspaper.
Four centuries ago, King Christian IV of Denmark issued a decree establishing one of Europe’s first modern postal services, following the examples of Poland and Portugal.
The routes, run by the guilds and the mayor of Copenhagen, stretched from Hamburg to Norway and were plied by the Amazon delivery drivers of their day, riders who were allowed a maximum of 45 minutes to cover each 10km stretch of the journey.
THE Home Secretary and others, including former Conservative leader Lord Hague, have suggested copying Danish asylum policies. But which of these policies, if any, have actually worked for Denmark?
From confiscating asylum seekers’ jewellery to negotiating offshore processing in Africa, Denmark has enacted some of Europe’s strictest measures in pursuit of a ‘zero asylum seekers’ goal. Supporters credit these tactics for driving asylum claims down to a 40-year low. Yet a closer look at key initiatives shows their impact is far less dramatic than promised.
Along with TikTok videos, weekend plans and history classes, there is another topic of conversation that Signe Le Fevre, 17, from Hobro in northern Denmark, discusses with her friends: whether they will soon be forced to join the army.
“Because that’s apparently a normal thing to talk about now as a teenage girl in Denmark,” Le Fevre says. “I turn 18 in February and it is a worry. Not many of us have a good feeling about it and are actually pretty scared to be selected — including me.”
Drones have been detected flying around a Danish jet fighter base and four airports, causing the diversion of flights in the second night of disruption this week.
Aalborg airport, which is the country’s third busiest and is used by the military, was briefly forced to close late on Wednesday night and at least three flights had to be rerouted.
The transport wing of the Danish air force, including Hercules and Challenger aircraft, and the Jaeger Corps of special forces commandos are located at an adjacent base.
Russian?
The Prime Minister of Denmark just addressed the nation, admitting she does not know what the UFOs invading the country are. China—or non-human intelligences—pitting us against each other? We’ve seen them trigger missile launches in the USSR, perhaps to blame the U.S. pic.twitter.com/BcgFSXgx1c
— Rony Vernet (@RonyVernet) September 26, 2025
Ross Coulthart on the Denmark incursions: “I don’t believe they are drones”
“Something or someone is demonstrating an ability to operate with total impunity. The absolute assurance of knowledge that they cannot be tracked [or] detected.
They are operating craft of some kind… pic.twitter.com/hsraWd1oOa
— UAP James (@UAPJames) September 25, 2025
A Danish court on Friday for the first time meted out a verdict in the first criminal case using the country’s new law prohibiting “improper treatment of a religious text.” The court sentenced Islamism critic Rasmus Paludan and one of his associates to each pay a fine of DKK10,000 (just over €1,300) for destroying copies of the Quran at Folkemødet, a civic festival aimed at fostering open debate, in Allinge, Bornholm, last summer.
In the tent of Paludan’s migration-critical political party, Stram Kurs, the two tore pages out of copies of the Quran, which Muslims consider a holy book, put the book on a grill, and let it drop into puddles on the ground.
Two bullet holes from the bad old days still scar the black metal doorway of Ishmail Schbaita’s busy corner shop in Copenhagen.
The migrant gangster who haphazardly fired the shots from a 9mm pistol during a drugs turf war has long disappeared from this once-dangerous suburb of Norrebro in the Danish capital.
He was deported as Denmark cracked down on rising crime caused, to a large degree, by the uncontrolled wave of 1.3 million migrants, which swept into Europe ten years ago, changing the face of the Continent for ever.
Denmark decided to extend the military draft to young women starting in the coming months, two years earlier than initially planned. Danish women who turn 18 after July 2025 will be required to register for the health screening and subsequent draft. At the same time, the standard service period will also be increased from 4 to 11 months.
In Denmark, health screenings have always been mandatory for men, but only those who are deemed fit enough for service are required to participate in the lottery. Service obligation is then determined by the number of places not filled by volunteers each year and a random number they draw—with 5,000 expected to be conscripted this year.
Denmark’s strict immigration policies resulted in the granting of 860 asylum requests last year, the lowest number bar 2020, when Covid-19 lockdowns halted new arrivals.
Denmark’s immigration approach has been influenced by Right-wing parties for more than 20 years, with Mette Frederiksen, the prime minister and leader of the centre-Left Social Democrats, pursuing a “zero refugee” policy since coming to power in 2019.
The country of around six million people received 2,300 asylum requests last year.
After years of discrimination the Inuit, the indigenous people of the Arctic who make up most of the population, could break away from Denmark
On a snowy hilltop overlooking a windswept bay in Nuuk, the tiny capital of Greenland, is a statue of the Christian missionary who led an expedition to colonise this vast island for Denmark in 1721. Three centuries on, after years of discrimination by Copenhagen against the local population, many Greenlanders wish that Hans Egede had never set sail.
Among the most vocal critics of Danish policies is Pele Broberg, the leader of Naleraq, an opposition party that is pushing hard for independence. “We have nothing in common with Denmark.
Nothing. We don’t have the same culture. We don’t have the same language. Nothing. What we have is systemic racism,” Broberg, a former foreign minister, said at his office in Greenland’s parliament, a small, two-storey building near Nuuk’s icy harbour.
29.6% of the country’s violent crimes and 32.4% of rapes are committed by perpetrators from a non-Western background, despite only making up 10.6% of the population.
Non-Western immigrants and their descendants are vastly overrepresented in Danish crime statistics.
Citing numbers from the Ministry of Justice, Berlingske reports that non-Western immigrants, who make up 8.4% of the Danish population, commit 14% of the country’s crimes of aggravated violence and 24.3% of the rapes, judging by number of convicted.
Maybe even more concerning are the figures for second-generation non-Western immigrants. Making up a mere 2.2% of the population, this demographic is responsible for 15.6% of the violent crimes and 8.1% of the rapes.
Mette Frederiksen, Denmark’s prime minister, has been assaulted by a male attacker in central Copenhagen.
Frederiksen was said to be “shocked” by Friday’s incident, according to her office, but no further details were given on her condition. A man was arrested at the scene of the attack, in the Danish capital’s Kultorvet square, and led away in handcuffs.
BREAKING: Denmark's prime minister Mette Frederiksen has been attacked in central Copenhagen
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She has a good history of calling out Islam for it’s true nature.
The Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen who leads the centre-left, Social Democrat party has said she wants to close Muslim independent schools & distribute them to state schools.
It’s thought they don’t promote integration & have an anti-Semitic & terrorist leanings. pic.twitter.com/hBXCdNcTFh
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) September 19, 2022
