Copenhagen Airport breaks new passenger record, nice weather expected this week and yet another Citizens’ Party MP becomes independent. Here’s Denmark’s news on Monday.
Copenhagen Airport broke the passenger record for April
A total of 2.8 million passengers passed through Copenhagen Airport in April, according to a press release from the airport, which is the highest number it has ever recorded for April. That’s also an increase of six percent compared with April last year. It’s also the 13th month in a row the airport has broken passenger records.
The airport writes that passenger numbers usually rise around Easter due to the extra public holidays.
“The high season for traveling has started in the run-up to the summer, and the global appetite for traveling is still high,” the airport’s CEO Peter Krogsgaard wrote.
“April was yet another very busy month with a high number of passengers.”
Spain was the most popular country for travelers in April, with more than 248,000 passengers flying there from Copenhagen last month. Málaga, Barcelona and Mallorca were the most popular destinations in Spain.
The number of travelers flying from Copenhagen to Asian destinations has also risen as new direct routes have been added.
The most popular single destinations were London, Oslo and Stockholm.
Danish vocabulary: most April travelers ever ‒ most April travelers ever
Weather set to be nice this week despite cooler temperatures
The coming week is not set to be as warm and summery as last week was, but it still looks like there is some nice spring weather on the way, according to Mille Jensen, on-duty meteorologist at Denmark’s national weather agency DMI.
“In general it will be a week with nice weather, some sun ‒ a lot of sun at times ‒ but there will be more clouds. And the temperatures will be more springlike than the almost summer temperatures we saw over the weekend,” she said.
On Monday temperatures will be around 8 to 15 degrees, which is lower than the 23-or-so degrees in the country on Saturday.
In eastern Denmark, temperatures could reach 17 degrees.
Temperatures could drop below freezing during the night if the weather is clear, she said, recommending a “light jacket” during the day.
Danish vocabulary: spring weather ‒ spring weather
Eight adoptees from South Korea are suing the Danish state
Eight adoptees from South Korea who were adopted to families in Denmark are suing the Danish state for breaking Danish laws on human rights which were in place at the time specifically regarding adoptions between the two countries.
The adoptees write in a press statement that they are each demanding 250,000 kroner in damages, describing it as a matter of principle regarding their rights, origins and family lives.
“It’s about a feeling of justice,” Gitte Mose, one of the eight adoptees, wrote in the statement. “Not having any access to your origins. Because it has a huge effect on forming your identity, which follows you for the rest of your life.”
The Danish Korean Rights Group (DKRG) has revealed that newborns in the 1970s and 1980s were systematically stolen from their mothers and put up for adoption with support from the South Korean state.
Their papers were forged and their identities were changed to meet demand for South Korean adoptees and ensure that a profit was made.
In 2024, a Danish court declared that Danish adoption agencies were aware of this. In October 2025, South Korea’s president apologized for the first time for the country’s treatment of tens of thousands of adoptees who were sent abroad.
Mose now wants the Danish government to follow South Korea’s example and take responsibility for the role they played in foreign adoptions.
Over 9,000 people in Denmark are adoptees from South Korea, which makes Denmark one of the countries with the largest number of South Korean adoptees per capita.
Danish vocabulary: adopted ‒ adopted
Far-right Citizens’ Party loses third MP
The far-right Citizens’ Party, which scraped into parliament just over the 2 percent threshold in Denmark’s election in March, has now lost a third MP since the election, meaning it only has one left ‒ party founder Lars Boje Mathiesen.
Nadja Natalie Isaksen, left the party on Sunday, joining her former party colleagues Jacob Harris and Emilie Schytte, who both became independent within recent weeks.
Isaksen wrote in her announcement on Facebook that the party has not met her expectations.
“The necessary conditions for being able to work on policy are no longer present,” she said. “The focus has to a large extent moved away from what it should all be about: politics.”
It’s not clear if Isaksen wishes to stay independent or join another party in parliament.
“My goal is to carry out my political aims, and I can do that best together with others rather than by being an independent,” she wrote in a comment below her Facebook post. She confirmed however to the Ritzau news wire that she has “no current plans” to join another party.
Danish vocabulary: vagrant ‒ independent
