New government ‘could be announced by Constitution Day’, Danish cyclist Vingegaard wins Giro d’Italia and more news from Denmark on Monday.
New government ‘could be announced by Constitution Day’
As party leaders reported progress made during talks at Marienborg. over the weekend, Jens Ringberg, political commentator for public broadcaster DR, said he expects a new centre-left government to be announced in the middle of the coming week or at least by Constitution Day on Friday.
“I’d put it sometime in the middle of the week. I can easily imagine that,” he said on DR. “I’m supposed to qualify this by saying that the whole thing could still collapse, but I don’t see any signs of that happening.”
On Sunday evening, the Red-Green Alliance and Alternative, the two far-left parties, joined talks again after a day of talks between the Social Democrats, Green Left party, Moderate Party, and Social Liberal party.
“We are not there yet. But it is getting better,” she told TV2 before entering the talks at midday on Sunday.
Martin Lidegaard, leader of the Social Liberal party, gave a similar message.
“We are still working on the government’s foundation, and we are quite far advanced,” he told DR. “But it is also the case that you are never finished with anything until you are finished with everything. So let’s hope that we get closer to the final pieces today.”
Danish cyclist wins Giro d’Italia
The Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard has won the Giro d’Italia race, becoming the eighth rider in history to win all three of cycling’s Grand Tour races.
Vingegaard beat Austria’s Felix Gall by 5 minutes, 22 seconds, with Australia’s Jai Hindley taking third place in the gruelling three week race.
The Danish star won the Tour de France in 2022 and 2023 and won Spain’s Vuelta race last year. This was his first Giro d’Italia.
“It’s absolutely crazy. I have a hard time understanding it, and it’s something I wouldn’t even dare to dream about,” Vingegaard told DR about his victory on Sunday.
He was rung and congratulated by King Frederik X after his victory, which came after the final stage ended in Rome.
Trump shares a photo with a greeting to Greenland
US President Donald Trump has yet again posted a photo of his giant head looking down on the Greenlandic town of Tasiilaq, along with the statement, “Hello, Greenland” and a translation in Danish, “Hej, Grønland”.
It is the same photo that Trump posted on his Truth Social network on May 23rd, after his special envoy to Greenland, Jeff Landry, had visited the island. Landry had visited Nuuk on Sunday, May 17th, and later met with Greenland’s top government officials.
Subsequently, Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen (Democratic Party) and Greenland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Múte B. Egede (IA), announced that they had had a good meeting with envoys from the United States.
“We said that Greenland and Greenlandic society must be respected, said the Prime Minister at a press conference in Nuuk.
Relations between the US and Greenland, as well as the US and Denmark, have become tense because Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of taking over Greenland, which is part of the Danish Commonwealth.
A third of municipalities see driest spring in 15 years
Thirty three of Denmark’s 98 municipalities have just had the driest spring since the country’s forecaster DMI started reporting at a municipality level in 2011, with only an average of 133.4 of rain across the country in March, April, and May, 30mm less than normal.
The least rain fell on the island of Bornholm, which received only 45.5mm, followed by Dragør with 50.7mm and Frederikssund with 52.8mm.
The rainiest place was Struer in central Jutland, which received 155.2mm.
Next week, the official beginning of summer, will however be marked by heavy showers, with 30mm to 40mm falling in many places.