Today’s big topic: Donald Trump has not abandoned his ambitions in the Arctic
Mark Rutte during a previous visit with Donald Trump at the White House in March 2025. Ahead of Wednesday’s meeting, Trump called him a »wonderful guy« — but behind the praise lies a growing conflict over NATO.
What’s happening?
It was a crisis meeting that NATO’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, walked into at the White House on Wednesday. A desperate attempt at damage control in an alliance increasingly threatened from within.
In the weeks leading up to the meeting, Donald Trump once again threatened to pull the United States out of NATO, citing the fact that several European allies had refused to take part in the war against Iran. Nothing suggests the meeting changed anything – quite the opposite.
»NATO wasn’t there when we needed them, and they won’t be there if we need them again. Remember Greenland, that big, poorly run, piece of ice!!!«, Donald Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, after meeting with Mark Rutte.
Why it matters!
Donald Trump is systematically casting doubt on whether the United States should even remain a member of NATO, and he is tying the alliance to his own ambitions. In doing so, he is pushing the cooperation perilously close to a breaking point, U.S. correspondent Anders Tornsø Jørgensen writes in this analysis.
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In other news
–Tivoli kicks off its annual Friday night concert series
Signs that summer in Copenhagen is on the way include a rise in Instagram posts featuring grilled whole fish, more cafe patrons reading novels, and more outdoor concerts. You’ll find the last of those in the heart of the city when Tivoli kicks off its annual Friday night concert series, Fredagsrock, on Friday, April 10. And this year’s lineup — everything from Katinka and Joey Moe to Zar Paulo and Florida — has, to put it mildly, something for every Copenhagener.
Read more here.
– Danes set deposit record last year
In 2025, Danes returned 2.2 billion bottles and cans for deposits. That is a record high, according to figures from Dansk Retursystem. The company says it helps make a difference for the climate when Danes return beverage containers.
»When bottles and cans are returned for deposits instead of being thrown away as trash, we can keep beverage containers in a closed loop«, says Kasper Qvant Schmidt, chief executive of Dansk Retursystem, in a press release.
– Research project shows that bullying has become more violent
Bullying is not confined to a physical space; it can move between different settings. That applies to school, after-school life, and digital media. Bullying still plays out in familiar, classic ways. But some of it has become more hidden than before. And there is more violence between pupils. That is the finding of a new research project from Aarhus University, initiated by the Mary Foundation.
Talk of town: Radio show criticized for laughing at disabled person
Simon Toftgaard Jespersen does not believe that »disability phobia« is widespread in Denmark, in the sense that people distance themselves from people with disabilities. But he does experience a great deal of uncertainty.
We’re being dragged back to »the dumbest corner of the schoolyard«. That’s Simon Toftgaard Jespersen’s analysis of what happened on a Radio IIII programme that aired over Easter.
»There was mocking laughter. It hurt to listen to«, says Simon Toftgaard Jespersen, who chairs the Danish Muscular Dystrophy Foundation and is vice chair of the Disabled People’s Organisations Denmark (DPOD).
The case centers on a segment of the Radio IIII show ’Vi ser på det’. On the program, guests are asked to comment on a clip in which disability activist Rasmus Lund-Sørensen, at an election debate, asks why people with disabilities take up so little space in the election campaign.
Rasmus Lund-Sørensen has cerebral palsy, and you can hear it when he speaks, and the guests in the studio laugh at it.
The segment has been sharply criticized on social media. The association for people with cerebral palsy, CP Danmark, said it was »lazy, sloppy, and bad journalism« and compared it to bullying. Radio IIII has since apologized to Rasmus Lund-Sørensen and has re-edited the program.
Read the full article here.
This newsletter features stories originally published in Danish. AI was used to shorten and translate the articles into English, after which a member of the editorial staff reviewed and refined the content.