Official meeting with the US in Greenland, new list of Denmark’s richest, election placards hit their removal deadline, and more news this Wednesday.
Denmark, Greenland and US to meet in Nuuk
Representatives from Greenland, Denmark and the United States will meet in Nuuk at the start of December to resume formal tripartite talks, newspaper Politiken reports based on information from the White House.
The meetings will take place within the Joint Committee and Permanent Committee, which are existing fora for official talks between the countries, but which have not been used in recent years.
Denmark and Greenland invited a US delegation to the talks, the US administration informed Politiken.
The talks will come around a year after President Donald Trump declared he wanted to take control of Greenland after winning the presidential election, and subsequently repeated this on many occasions, not ruling out the use of military force.
Earlier this month, Politiken reported that the US attempted to meet with Greenland at a high political level without Denmark present.
READ ALSO: US Ambassador denies Trump link to Greenland ‘interference’
Denmark’s richest families 15 billion kroner less well-off
The top 100 richest families in Denmark have slightly smaller fortunes than they had a year ago, with the ten families at the top of the list affected the most.
A list of the richest families in the country is released every year by finance media Økonomisk Ugebrev and tech company Loyalty Key.
The fact that Denmark’s ultra-rich have become slightly less rich is notable in itself, according to Økonomisk Ugebrev’s journalist Ejlif Thomasen, the author of the list.
“It’s quite rare for wealth to decline. This is only the second time in many years that we’ve seen it happen, and it’s mainly due to significant drops at the top of the list,” he told news wire Ritzau.
Denmark’s richest family is Lego owners the Kirk Christiansens with a fortune of 350 billion kroner, down from 368 last year.
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Election placards must be removed by today
The placards that were placed all over lampposts around Danish towns for the local elections must now be removed, or the owners could get a fine.
Rules relating to the placards mean the parties who put them up are responsible for their removal no more than eight days after the election.
That means the parties have until 11:59pm today to take them down,
READ ALSO: What are the rules on Denmark’s election posters?
The Danish Road Directorate oversees the national road network and is responsible for registering posters that haven’t been taken down on time.
“The posters are then removed at the candidate’s expense. The charge for removal is 533 kroner per election poster,” the agency said in a Facebook post.
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Central bank warns home buyers against banking on future prices
People buying property in Denmark should keep in mind that house prices are not guaranteed to continue their current upward curve, the country’s central bank has warned.
In a new analysis of the Danish housing market, the country’s central bank Nationalbanken says that buyers should not assume that steep rises in property values, particularly in the Copenhagen area, will last indefinitely.
The central bank has warned buyers who are relying on the property gaining value that they can be left with a debt larger than the value of their home if the market bubble bursts, for example in the event of a financial crisis like the one seen at the end of the 2000s.
Apartment prices in Copenhagen rose by 16 percent between the second quarter of 2024 and the second quarter of 2025, according to the analysis.