Golden (thornless) rose By Minucchio Jacobi da Siena. 1330 Created in Avignon to reward piety & services to the Pope. This particular version was given during Lent to the Count of Neuchâtel. From the treasury of the Basel Cathedral (Switzerland) Displayed @museecluny.bsky.social, Paris

This is both calming and extremely terrifying.

“I titled my report from Ukraine last year “America Rattles Denmark.” A year later Denmark is through being rattled. The shock of a belligerent Washington, or a transformed Washington, has worn off. A new day is upon us, whether we like it or not.” www.thenextmove.org/p/the-free-w...

Hmm...

In der Diplomatie gilt: Souverän ist, wer über die Tagesordnung bestimmt. So hat Xi Jinping den Gipfel mit Trump von Beginn an dominiert, indem er die „Taiwanfrage“ vorab zum wichtigsten Thema erklärte, indirekt mit Krieg drohte und so das chinesische Framing durchsetzte. 1/2

I know there’s a lot going on in the world, and we don’t have enough attention to pay to any of it. But the throttling of Cuba by the US should be a bigger story than it is. There are about 10 million people in Cuba, subjected to horrendous collective punishment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

🇩🇰Danish PULS and 🇵🇱Polish HIMARS engaged in live firing exercises from Raghammer shooting grounds on the island of Bornholm, where Danish and Polish forces have trained deployment and defence of the island during this week (Forsvaret FB) #strongertogether

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Mindst (det er foreløbige og underopdaterede tal) 3.270 flere udenlandske statsborgere havde lønindkomst i #dkøko i 1. kvt. 2026 smlg. med 4. kvt. 2025. Foreløbig 436.000 personer (SK) i mar. 2026. Det er stadig 3. lande der trækker, mens EU/EØS kun udviser mindre stigninger i 1. kvt. 26 #dkpol

“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my Lords, that where laws end, there tyranny begins.” The Great Commoner, William Pitt the Elder, died #OTD 1778. Portrait by William Hoare c. 1774, National Portrait Gallery London

Inflationen i #dkøko på 1,4% i apr. 26 fra 1,2% i mar. 26= overraskende lille stigning i lyset af olieprisernes ⬆️. Brændstof mv. er steget, men el, gas og andet brændsel er faldet, så samlet set FALDT energi-priserne i apr. Kerneinflationen en smule ned til 1,6% i apr. Dejlig positive tal #dkpol

Trods stor stigning i mar. 26 faldt #dkøko eksporten af både varer og tjenester lidt i 1. kvt. 2026. Importen lå uændret. 👉 umiddelbart på negativt vækstbidrag til BNP-væksten, meeen prisudviklingen kan snyde. Overskud på BBs løbende poster på 394 mia. kr. seneste år 🔥🔥🔥 #dkpol

0445 this morning, units of the 6th 🇵🇱Polish Airborne Brigade parachuted to the 🇩🇰Danish island of Bornholm, where they were received by the Bornholms Regiment as part of the largest military exercise on the island since the Cold War. #strongertogether

Rhodium client note: Xi enters the summit in the strongest position of any Chinese leader who has sat down with his US counterpart in recent history—or perhaps ever. That is a function of the Iran war & recent tariff rulings, but also of the fraying of US alliances and China’s rare earths leverage.

Sullivan, Austin etc. did almost as much damage to our Ukraine/Russia policy by wringing hands, overthinking, holding meetings and prevarication than did the Trump team by just being awful.

Father of Europe: Charlemagne, commanding King of the Franks, Holy Roman Emperor, warrior, administrator, educational reformer, book lover; died 814. Bust of Charlemagne, Mosan Gothic silver-gilt reliquary set with gems & intaglios, on fleurs-de-lis base, c 1350, Aachen Cathedral Treasury #EuropeDay

It's 9th May. When I first posted this over on "the other place" in 2020, I was vilified and castigated by trolls, vatniks, genuine Russophiles and actual Russians in pretty much universally the same terms. It was fascinating to watch the reaction change over time each year I reposted it.

The Iliad and Odyssey were campfire stories. Shakespeare plays are full of scandal and low brow humor. (The guy named Bottom gets magically turned into an ass. Get it? Get it?) They were mass entertainment. Great, and stood the test of time. But because they’re old timey, thought of as high art.

Every day the news bulletin begins "President Trump has said..." Yet we know he'll say something different tomorrow, which is different to what he said yesterday, & that none of these statements is likely to be true. I get the problem for broadcasters, but this model is actively occluding the news

”We live forward, but we understand backward.” Søren Kierkegaard, Danish existentialist philosopher, born #OTD 1813. Portrait: Unfinished sketch by his brother Niels, c.1850, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen

Today on 4 May Denmark commemorates the liberation in 1945. After years of darkened windows the curtains were removed and candle lights lit up the windows. Across the country the tradition is kept alive - here illustrated by the local home guard company of the island of Laesoe.

PM Mark Carney: “It’s my strong personal view that the international order will be rebuilt — but it will be rebuilt out of Europe.”

Uanset flyvske narrativer under og efter valget støtter 65 % af vælgerne centrumpartier. Den koalition vil fortsat styre landet.

Sweden has just launched its first military satellite. It was originally scheduled to be launched in 2030 but the time frame has been radically compressed.

At the annual celebration of the Battle of Camerone 30 April the Commander of the French Foreign Legion was accompanied by two retired senior NCOs, Adjutant Chef Madsen and Du Pont. Madsen, a Dane, joined in 1955 and retired as Adjutant Chef (WO1) in 1983. 1/3

Trump’s latest moves on trade and troops in Europe reconfirm two simple facts: no deal with Trump is worth the paper it’s written on & no degree of bending the knee to him makes an iota of a difference (other than shredding European dignity)

I agree with this on principle. I also think there is a real danger in carving out exceptional bans for particular causes or phrases, beyond what is covered by existing legislation. This can easily become counterproductive. bsky.app/profile/samf...

On the "don't know how anything works" scale, believing that U.S. bases in Germany are more of a favor to the Germans than a method of American power projection isn't at the very top, but it's up there.

Another confirmation that the EU-US trade deal at Turnberry was a mistake. As Carney notes: “A lot of countries rushed into [trade] deals with the US -- they weren't really worth the paper they were written on”. reuters.com/business/aut... 1/

Rart vide: Majbritt Birkholm fortsætter hvor Anders Vistisen slap i EP. Kunne ikke stemme for resolutionen: "Ensuring accountability and justice in response to Russia’s continued attacks against the civilian population in Ukraine". I et i øvrigt splittet Pfe hvor 🇫🇷 og 🇮🇹 medlemmer stemte for.

Welcome onboard the very first commercial journey of @ceskedrahy_ Prague 🇨🇿 - Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Currently joining the train in Berlin, I’ll be spending 10 hours on this cozy train all the way to Denmark! 🚆 As you can see, the train is more busy!

🇩🇰Danish Air Force C-130J and 🇫🇷French Air Force A400M working together to transport fuel to Station Nord on Northern 🇬🇱Greenland, which is inaccessible by ship due to ice. Station Nord, 924 km from the North pole, is the northenmost military base of the Kingdom of Denmark.

🔱🇩🇪Germany’s Chief of Navy Vice Admiral Kaack today asked the audience at the National Maritime Conference a question: “How many mines does it take to close the Strait of Hormuz?” The correct answer, according to him, is zero. Even the claim alone forces opponents to assume that mines were deployed.

RSF World Press Freedom Index 2026 viser for første gang i indeksets historie, at mere end halvdelen af ​​verdens lande nu falder ind under kategorierne "vanskelig" eller "meget alvorlig". Norge ligger nr. 1; Danmark nr. 4. Link til artikel på DR og direkte link til RSF: rsf.org/en/2026-rsf-...

Happy anniversary of the capture of the Strait of Hormuz in 1622 by a combined Safavid Empire and British East India Company fleet, to all who celebrate.

That's quite impressive. (For me as a European defence nerd, super interesting to see yet another minilateral format). "10 members of the Joint Expeditionary Force (Jef), had signed last week a statement of intent to create a “multinational maritime force” to act as a “complement to Nato”".

Striking fact: based on the latest V-Dem dataset released last month, 93 percent of the world's population living under a liberal democratic regime are either in the EU (56 percent) or in the East Asia-Pacific region (JP, KR, TW, AU, NZ; 37 percent). www.v-dem.net/data/the-v-d...

One more Vilhelm Hammershøi painting from the exhibition @museothyssen.org in Madrid: This is Interior with Woman at the Piano, Strandgade 30 (1901, Private collection). Read about the silence of the Dane in this show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/04/let-...

You really cannot overestimate the level of status trauma a lot of white Americans experienced at the election of Barack Obama and how much of our politics is still influenced by it bsky.app/profile/beau...

According to Danish media DR the 🇰🇷 Korean HD Hyundai Heavy Industries enters the 🇩🇰Danish frigate competition with the HDF-6000 - as previously suggested by Maersk in April 2025. Reportedly they can deliver four frigates already by 2031.

Efter i fem år i træk at have EUs største overskud på de offentlige finanser blev vi sidste år overhalet af Cypern. Dog stadig gigantisk overskud på 2,9% af BNP + vi har en KÆMPE offentlige finansiel nettoformue. #dkøko offentlige finanser er de stærkeste i EU og formentlig i DK-historien #dkpol

#GL #Greenland #AirGreenland civilian #SAR #SearchAndRescue helicopter training with #RDN #Forsvaret #DK #Denmark Source FB 'Kaare Bak'

"There needs to be an understanding that shipping is not governed by physical access alone, but by risk perception." oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

"I don’t think Americans fully appreciate the extraordinary cost of Trump’s bluster. It should go without saying, but once you threaten to invade an allied country, you don’t just place the existence of the alliance in jeopardy; you raise the possibility of allies turning into mortal enemies"

HM The King joins Sirius for a dog sledge patrol in Greenland. Personally enforcing Danish sovereignty. 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 www.kongehuset.dk/foto-video/h... www.kongehuset.dk/foto-video/h...

One way to reconcile these positions: there's a range between a truly "fake" deal as w/ North Korea in Trump 1.0, passing up deal on nukes to verify, count, etc. & stabilize the relationship, & some kind of minimal if incomplete diplo effort to get an outcome both sides can live with & call a W. 1/

Not trust per se, but it has been really interesting too see how much emphasis in Danish (elementary) schools is on building community (fjællesskab)