Narcis George Matache, Katie Burns, Fionn O'Toole, Kalpita Bhosale & Dominika Handzlik
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Danish news through international eyes.
Last Week in Denmark is an English-language conversation about Danish public life through international eyes. Elections, housing, immigration rules, student permits, food culture, and Copenhagen habits become practical, human-sized debates rather than distant headlines.
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Last Week in Denmark treats Danish public life as something internationals can understand, argue about, and use. It is an English-language news conversation with the feel of a lively table rather than a bulletin. The show returns often to politics because politics keeps touching ordinary life. Election deadlocks, government negotiations, citizenship rules, immigration fears, residence fines, and student permit reviews are not framed as abstract machinery. They are linked to jobs, visas, housing, voting rights, and the decision to stay in Denmark or leave. That practical angle gives the show its pulse. It can be serious without becoming stiff. A discussion of who is considered Danish can sit close to a joke about Danish place names, weather complaints, hotel recordings, or the strange endurance of licorice. The conversation often starts from personal reaction and works outward. Someone asks what a proposal is really solving, someone else brings in a comparison from another country, and the conversation moves toward provisional clarity. The range is wide. Recent episodes cover offline experiences, debt, Copenhagen housing profits, oil shock worries, Noma abuse allegations, pork production, animal welfare, environmental policy, local candidates, share accounts, birdwatching, nature shelters, and the national dish debate. The show is especially good at noticing how symbolic issues become political shortcuts. Pork is not only pork. Smorrebrod is not only lunch. A fake CV scandal or a racism row becomes a way to ask what Denmark rewards, forgives, or excludes. Guests add outside texture without taking over the basic conversation rhythm. Kelly Rasmussen brings Danish policy and daily-life terms, Jesper Rudd Jeijer brings a Danish-language angle, and Derek Hartman brings comedy and foreigner-in-Copenhagen perspective. The conversation can wander, repeat, and self-correct. That looseness is part of the usefulness. It sounds like people thinking in public about a country they live in, care about, and still sometimes find baffling. For internationals in Denmark, the value is not only the headline recap. It is the translation of civic life into social reality.
Made for: Designed for internationals living in Denmark, people considering a move there, and anyone trying to understand how Danish politics, culture, and bureaucracy affect daily life.
What sets it apart: Its strength is translation by lived comparison: Danish systems are explained through housing stress, visas, language confusion, elections, food habits, and everyday social friction rather than detached analysis.
Curious about what’s really happening in Denmark — and how it affects the life of internationals living here? Each week, two hosts from the LWID community talk through the top news stories and developments — in English — sharing personal insights and international perspectives. It’s a clear and accessible conversation about life in Denmark, made for people who live here but didn’t grow up here. Last Week In Denmark is a volunteer-driven media project with a simple mission: to empower people through information.With a mix of short summaries, thoughtful discussion, and context you can actually use, we cover everything from housing...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Last Week in Denmark connects Danish policy debates to the practical questions internationals face around residence, citizenship, education, work and housing.
Last Week in Denmark turns Danish public life into a conversational roundtable, tracing how elections, citizenship rules, student permits, housing proposals and agricultural policy affect internationals living in the country.
An election debrief turns to pigs, and suddenly your dinner has a voting record.
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A conversational Danish policy episode that stays grounded in everyday life.
Last Week in Denmark opens as a loose panel conversation, with Katie, Kalpita, and guest Kelly Rasmussen moving from everyday life in Denmark to the question of whether more internationals are leaving than arriving.
A Danish election, pig politics, and a national dish conversation stay easy to follow.
Denmark's election results get treated less like a scoreboard and more like a live conversation, with Katie, Kalpita, and guest Jesper Rudd Jeijer teasing out what surprised people and what still needs sorting.
Election math meets immigration policy, with practical stakes for internationals trying to stay in Denmark.
The conversation treats Denmark's election night as a question of belonging as much as ballot math. It links coalition outcomes to citizenship rules and the longer tightening of immigration policy, giving the discussion more civic weight than a standard political recap.
A clear look at Danish policy debates and the questions they raise.
Last Week in Denmark uses the episode to tie together three local concerns: possible higher fines for residence-rule breaches, the debate over housing profits, and the question of knitted clothes on nude statues.
A grounded tour of Danish politics, from student permits to local and regional candidates.
The episode gives a neat slice of Danish public life, moving from the proposed raise of the share account limit to the review of permits for students from Bangladesh and Nepal, then on to local and regional candidates.
Cocktails, culture, politics, and ruined comforts.
Culture work, held close and thought through.
Gnostic myth for a very strange present.
Kelly Rasmussen joins Katie and Kalpita for a broad conversation about life in Denmark.
This episode discusses recent Danish political developments, including government negotiations, a racism row involving Samira Nawa, a fake CV scandal with Bånespati Emilia Schudde, and ends with positive news about nature shelters and birdwatching.
Katie and Kalpita are joined by Jesper Rudd Jeijer to unpack Denmark's election results.
Season 5, episode 10 revolves around Denmark’s national elections.
This episode discusses potential oil crisis fears, fallout from abuse allegations at Noma restaurant, and explores why Danes enjoy licorice, tailored for internationals living in Denmark.
Dom and Katie open with a Saturday check-in, then move through three Danish stories.
The hosts open with a proposal to raise Denmark’s share account limit to 500,000 Danish kroner.