Danes will from Saturday afternoon be able to stock up on cheap booze, tobacco, sweets and soft drinks at shopping centres on the German border, after the province of Schleswig-Holstein was ranked "yellow" in a new travel update.
There were queues of traffic as long as 8km at Denmark's southern border on Monday, as German holidaymakers streamed in to spend weeks at summer houses in the country.
Summer house owners in Denmark are calling for the government to open borders by the end of May so that Germans can come and celebrate the long Pentecost weekend at Danish holiday cottages.
Germany is willing to reopen its border with Denmark, but is waiting for a decision from the Danish authorities, the country's interior minister said in a press conference on Wednesday.
Denmark's political parties are split over opening the country's borders, with the opposition Liberals arguing that the tourism industry will be crippled until visitors know when they can enter.
The Danish government announced on Thursday that it was extending controls at its border with Germany. In a letter to the EU, Copenhagen cited the security risk posed by people fleeing deportation orders south of the border.
Denmark is considering passing a law that could block a disputed Russian pipeline project which would run through the NATO member's territory due to security concerns.
An MP with Denmark’s governing Liberal (Venstre) party has caused internal division in his own party after posting a message that appeared to show support for Germany’s far-right.
The number of Germans travelling to Denmark each year is increasing – but the sandy beaches of the Scandinavian country’s west coast are no longer the only reason, according to a report.
Danish foreign minister Kristian Jensen complained on Wednesday that Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel had underestimated how many refugees would flood into her country under a former open door policy.
In the first 24 hours of temporary controls at the German border, 18 people were denied entry into Denmark and three people were arrested for human smuggling.
London mayor Boris Johnson has cited Denmark's power to block foreigners from buying property as proof the EU could allow the UK to delay benefits to EU immigrants for four years.
Roadside signs are not something that typically generate a lot of interest, but that certainly has not been the case just north of the German border, where weeks of debate ended with an unknown perpetrator ripping down the area's first bilingual sign.
A push by the German minority to have bilingual town signs in Southern Jutland (Sønderjylland) has now paid off in the town of Haderslev. Or perhaps we should say Hadersleben.
On April 9th 1940, German Nazi troops launched an invasion into both Denmark and Norway, seizing Danish cities including the capital Copenhagen and causing the Danish King Christian X to surrender almost immediately.
A petition by Southern Jutland's German minority to include German town names on official signage was turned down by Danes who said area residents aren't ready to "fully come to terms with the past".
