IF ALL goes to plan, Schleswig-Holstein will make political history this month. Its new government will include an ethnic-minority party, for the first time in a German state. The party, the South ...

Little Denmark has next to no army or navy. Yet in the last 13 years it has won more territory proportionately to its size than any other world nation. Last fortnight the Permanent Court of ...

DIFFERING NAMES for a historical event can be an ominous sign of competing, zero-sum national memories. Not so in the case of what Germans refer to as “the plebiscite of 1920”. That round of votes, ...

It was the early 1900s, and Danes in Schleswig, repressed under German rule, decided to use biology to fight back. No, they didn’t make a biological weapon. They made a pig. This is the Danish Protest ...

Up from resplendent London after the Coronation, an airplane was to take off late this week and, soaring eastward over the North Sea off the low coast of Europe, skirt that continent up to the jigsaw ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark has begun erecting a 43-mile fence along the German border to keep out wild boars in an attempt to prevent the spread of African swine fever, which could jeopardize the ...

German authorities are investigating claims that unidentified drones may have spied on critical infrastructure in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, officials said Wednesday. Multiple drones ...