Poland and Denmark have taken unprecedented steps to exclude companies registered in tax havens from coronavirus relief schemes. The Danish government announced this weekend that companies which pay out dividends, buy back own shares or are registered in offshore tax jurisdictions won’t be eligible for any of the state aid programmes.

Denmark, the first country in Europe to gradually start reopening, reported no coronavirus-related deaths on Friday from the day earlier for the first time since March 13. Denmark’s total number of confirmed cases rose by 78 to 10,791 since Thursday, with the number of hospitalisations falling by 10 to 137. The death toll remained unchanged at 537.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt hands victory to centre-right bloc, saying, ‘I stand by the decisions I have made’

This weekend at Roskilde Festival in Denmark, Damon Albarn performed a 5-hour set with the Africa Express Project that included a cover of the Clash's "Should I Stay Or Should I Go", which he performed with Songhoy Blues, Nick Zinner, Jeff Wootton, and Seye Adelekan.

About 2,000 Bronze Age gold coils are found in Danish field.

When it comes to renewable energy, Denmark is officially kicking ass. Yesterday, Denmark’s wind farms produced 116% of national electricity demands, allowing the country to export power to Norway, German, and Sweden. According to The Guardian, that figure had risen to 140% by early Friday morning.

Denmark gets EU approval for a 19km (12-mile) road-rail tunnel that will cut journey times to Germany.

Denmark’s government has brought in a ban on the religious slaughter of animals for the production of halal and kosher meat, after years of campaigning from welfare activists.

Breath-stealing landscapes of rolling green pastures and tiny villages make the Faroe Islands a tourist destination.

Jarmund/Vigsnæs Arkitekter designed a home in Denmark, that is split up into five separate buildings, each one being a different part of the home.

George Mikes, a Hungarian-born British author, once wrote “an Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.” Whether it’s at the bank or the grocery store, waiting in line is a staple of British life. What, then, would Brits make of Danish researchers who suggest the age-old discipline of “first come, first served” is a waste of time?

An older photo of the bridge connecting two of the biggest islands in Denmark.

The Faroe Islands is an ancient volcanic archipelago in the middle of the North Atlantic with a population of just 50 000. Though technically part of the Danish Kingdom, the Faroe Islands is its own self-governing country.

This is a new edit of a photo I took at a photo tour with about 50 other photographers in Viborg, Denmark, in May 2008. At the time I only processed the jpgs, but fortunately I also kept the raw files, so this is based on the raw file. The kind of lightbulbs in the lamp are no longer used, so in more than one sense the photo is from the past :-)

Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm is a free man again after serving three years in prison for hacking and copyright offenses. His release marks the end of a turbulent and tough period characterized by successive trials, appeals and convictions in both Sweden and Denmark.

It is not so easy to capture a guy on a horse chopping away at random objects when he actually hits the object. It is a one off chance - he is not going to repeat his act, just because you didn't capture the moment. This time I was lucky to get it almost right, but I would have liked a slightly different angle with more space underneath the sword and less stuff in the background. In any case I'm quite happy with the result :-)

**Submitter's note: to avoid paywall restrictions, always browse this site in privacy/incognito mode.** How great are the Danes, really? The answer is that the Danes get a lot of things right, and in so doing refute just about everything U.S. conservatives say about economics. And we can also learn a lot from the things Denmark has gotten wrong.

In Greenland the shortest day of the year can have little more than three hours of sunlight - but the long, dark winter can be a thing of beauty.

Samsø [Denmark] runs on renewable energy—and makes money doing it. By Steve Brodner.

In a pilot program underway in Aarhus, Denmark, cyclists are given RFID tags that trigger traffic lights in their favor. By Heather Hansman.