Denmark spent 213 million Danish kroner fighting against terror group Isis during a four-month period ending in February this year, according to Ritzau.
Following last month’s twin shootings in Copenhagen, the Justice Ministry has proposed a series of initiatives designed to minimize the chances of a repeat incident.
One month after the twin terror shootings that shook Denmark, a number of municipalities nationwide are scrambling to implement anti-radicalization strategies.
In a video message uploaded this week, a person claiming to represent the internet collective Anonymous warns that the Danish government is using fear to enforce new societal restrictions.
As part of the government's new counter-terror measures, the Danish Defence Intelligence Service is given the ability to conduct surveillance on citizens abroad without a court order – something that not even the NSA or GCHQ can do.
The Danish government introduced a new anti-terror package following the Copenhagen shootings, but internet privacy advocate Henrik Chulu argues that privacy restrictions will limit the free speech that politicians say they want to defend.
Prominent Danish free speech advocates like Flemming Rose remain defiant in the aftermath of the Copenhagen attacks, but an opinion poll reveals that Danes' support for publishing potentially offensive material has decreased.
At an anti-terrorism conference hosted by the Obama administration, Danish Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard was joined by top ministers from Jordan, Egypt, France and Belgium, all of which – like Denmark – have suffered serious setbacks at the hands of either extremist groups or lone wolves.
UPDATED: The Danish government will spend nearly one billion kroner over the next four years to better defend the nation against terror, the prime minister announced Thursday.
Denmark’s parliament near unanimously voted through the country’s new anti-radicalisation plan on Tuesday, pledging to spend nearly 60 million kroner ($9.2m) on planned projects.
At the EU Minister meetings in Brussels, Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard said that Europe should stick to its values in the face of terror and called on the EU to work with countries in the Middle East and northern Africa.
Denmark’s opposition will today push for anyone travelling to the ‘terror zones’ in Syria or northern Iraq to be required to first obtain an official exit permit, introducing a document to Denmark rarely seen outside totalitarian regimes.
The attack on Charlie Hebdo reverberated throughout the Danish media community due to the connections between the French satire magazine and the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
In a decade, the number of Danes who think a terror attack will occur in Denmark has fallen significantly despite warnings from security police and jihadists.
A new report from the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) says that the number of Danes fighting in Syria and Iraq has increased, as has the risk of a terror attack.
The Islamic Association in Denmark says it has been wrongly included in a list of groups labelled as terrorist organizations by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the weekend.
A Danish-Moroccan citizen escaped expulsion after his 2007 conviction on terror charges but prosecutors are hoping for a different outcome this time around.
Anjem Choudary, who said Sharia law will come to Denmark and that he'd like to see Christiansborg renamed Muslimborg, was among nine arrested on Thursday.
The number of Europeans fighting for the Islamic State has increased dramatically in the past month with fears that Danes, Swedes and Norwegians are among them.
