Fif Beck in Copenhagen Archive

On April 16 Copenhagen and all of Denmark celebrated Queen Margrethe’s 75th birthday and the media circus went crazy in its enthusiasm testing the limits of public tolerance. Meanwhile the question more and more emerges on social media: why should Denmark still have …

The Socialist People’s Party, one of the parties in the Danish coalition government, has withdrawn its participation after massive criticism of the sale of shares in the partly state-owned energy company Dong to US firm Goldman Sachs. The Socialist People’s Party (SF) …

A small, but important, event was held in the area of Nörrebro in Copenhagen on September 23. It is an area with some social problems and is also home to Hells Angels and immigrant gangs. The reason for the event has its …

When Tasmanian Mary Elizabeth Donaldson married the Danish Crown Prince Frederik – son of  Danish queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik –  in the Copenhagen Cathedral on May 14, 2004 they were showered with presents of every kind. Even a tram from Melbourne where Mary had at one …