Government plans new measure to lower fuel prices

A new government measure could see all fuel companies required to post their petrol and diesel prices online, enabling consumers to more easily find the best offer.

This will boost competition on the market and could save a typical household up to 2,000 kroner per year, according to newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

The move has been criticised by Drivkraft Danmark, the interest organisation for fuel companies.

"We think that customers generally have good options when it comes to checking fuel prices in Denmark, because all petrol stations are obliged to advertise prices with large signage at stations," the organisation's spokesperson Michael Mücke Jensen told Jyllands-Posten.

Unusual road issue causes jam on motorway from Sweden

Traffic heading from Sweden towards Denmark this morning was blocked as a result of a water issue which made the road surface unstable, news wire Ritzau reports.

The section of the motorway leaving Sweden after the Øresund Bridge between the Amager Strandvej and Tårnby tunnel exits was affected, with traffic diverted onto local roads.

"All traffic from Sweden will be diverted to Amager Strandvej [local road, ed.]. Traffic from the airport will be diverted to Amager Landvej," Copenhagen Police wrote in a statement on X.

Bridge operator Sund & Bælt stated there had been an unusual incident on the road without giving further detail, but Copenhagen Police chief Henrik Stormer later told Ritzau a water related issue had put the road foundation at risk.

Only one side of the road is closed so far due to the problem.

Conservatives want reevaluation of people on disability pensions

The Conservative party says it wants to up the number of reevaluations of people who receive disability pensions, førtidpensionister in Danish, specifically targeting young people, foreign nationals and convicted criminals.

Data shows a record number of people now receive the social benefit.

"This is a huge problem and unfair to the people who go to work. It can't continue. We have to do things better, both financially and humanly," party leader Mona Juul said to Ritzau.

Some 265,000 people currently receive state pensions in Denmark before the retirement age because they are deemed medically unable to work.

Denmark to buy long-range precision weapons amid Russia threat

Denmark said on Wednesday that it would for the first time acquire "long-range precision weapons", citing the need for deterrence capabilities in light of the threat from Russia.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told a press conference that the move was "a paradigm shift in Danish defence policy".

"For the first time, Denmark is to build up military capacity in the form of long-range precision weapons," she told reporters.