Today’s big topic: Party leader criticized for meetings with controversial Trump supporter
What’s happening?
As Donald Trump has threatened to take Greenland by force, Pele Broberg, the leader of Greenland’s largest opposition party, Naleraq, has on several occasions met with a controversial American businessman and Trump supporter who says he has passed his impressions on to the White House.
Pele Broberg has also spoken by phone with a representative of the Trump administration, who called him in connection with last year’s Greenlandic election.
That has drawn sharp criticism from several quarters in Greenland.
What has drawn particular attention is that Pele Broberg has repeatedly met with the businessman Drew Horn, who was part of Trump’s first administration and whom several figures in Danish and Greenlandic diplomacy suspect of carrying out a kind of influence operation.
Why it matters!
Political turmoil has surrounded Greenland for much of 2026 in light of the American President’s open ambition to acquire Greenland. Pele Broberg’s contact with people directly representing or in close relation to Donald Trump gets criticized for potentially fragmenting the people of Greenland and directly threatening the country.
Erik Jensen, a former minister from the Social Democratic party Siumut, calls the contact »deeply troubling«.
»I think it’s wrong that the MAGA movement has had such close dialogue with a Greenlandic party. I strongly distance myself from that«, he says.
Aqqaluk Lynge, a co-founder and former leader of the left-leaning governing party IA, calls the situation serious.
»Pele Broberg’s connection to the MAGA movement looks like fifth-column activity. It’s a very serious situation that a Greenlandic party leader is helping the president of the United States, who wants to take over his own country«, says Aqqaluk Lynge, who accuses the Naleraq chairman of dividing Greenlanders.
»What could ruin everything is if the cohesion among us Greenlanders erodes. And with someone like Pele Broberg, it can go wrong«, he says.
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– Nadine receives an honorary prize but still must wait for citizenship
The 29-year-old woman from the Danish island of Funen, Nadine, who last year was stripped of her Danish citizenship after posting a comment on Facebook about the war in Gaza, has now received a tangible boost. On Sunday, she was awarded the Georgbruunske Prize for having been subjected to an »unreasonable bureaucracy«. Nadine’s Danish citizenship was deregistered after an unusual sequence of events in which politicians on Parliament’s Naturalization Committee persuaded the minister for digitalization and the minister for immigration and integration to launch a deep-dive review of her past.
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– New trend carries serious consequences for the entire creative industry
The supermarket chain Coop has already been using A.I. models in its weekly circulars for a year. And now Salling Group, which is behind the supermarket chains Bilka, Netto, and Føtex, among others, will also experiment with the artificial models. Starting in May, it will use a mix of A.I. models and real models in its ads for the clothing brand VRS in its circulars and on social media for the Bilka and Føtex stores.
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– The phaseout of the physical Rejsekort is being postponed by a month on Zealand
Travelers on Zealand can wait an extra month before putting away their physical Rejsekort. While May 28 is the last day you can check in with the blue plastic card in Jutland and on Funen, it can be used until June 29 on Zealand, Lolland, Falster and Møn, Rejsekort & Rejseplan said in a news release. The company had previously said that the end of May would be a final goodbye to the physical Rejsekort nationwide. The reason for the phased shutdown is that a few Basiskort ticket types will not be ready until later. At the same time, 70 percent of the roughly 300,000 travelers who still use the physical Rejsekort live on Zealand.
Talk of town: A gleaming, light-blue international train has departed Copenhagen Central Station for the first time
The journey takes 11 hours. Along the way, there is also a stop in Berlin.
A gleaming, light-blue international train has pulled out of Copenhagen Central Station for the first time. It is Ceské dráhy’s (Czech Railways) new direct service to Prague via Berlin.
Two young Danes were on board among the 555 avaiable seats: Casper Vinderslev Pålsson, 21, and Vincent Bergmann, 20. Both are from Copenhagen.
They look almost blissful. And who wouldn’t, with the sun shining, May in full swing, and two months of Interrail ahead. Hamburg, Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Zagreb, Venice. Just to name a few stops.
Their happiness also has something to do with the train they’re sitting in.
»We walk in, and the first thing we see is a bar!« Casper Vinderslev Pålsson says of the dining car – complete with Czech Urquell beer on tap, an espresso machine, and a few light dishes – that the state-owned Ceské dráhy is rolling out on the route.
For now, Ceské dráhy is running one daily departure to Berlin and Prague and one to Hamburg. From June 14, there will be two daily departures in each direction along the full route, which in the summer period will be supplemented by a late-night departure. The harsh winter, meanwhile, has delayed track work in northern Germany so much that the travel time during the Prague train’s initial operating period has been extended to about 13 hours – still without any transfers along the way.
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