2007 in Denmark
overview of Denmark-related events during the year of 2007
Events from the year 2007 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Monarch – Margrethe II
Prime minister – Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Events
February
21 February – Denmark will withdraw its 460 troops from the Iraq War by August.
March
3 March – The eviction of Ungdomshuset by Danish police results in more rioting in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, leading to about 100 arrests during a second night of protests.
5 March – Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, is demolished to prevent it from being re-occupied.
April
11 April – The United States Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates meets with the Defense Ministers of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and Denmark as well as officials from Estonia and Romania to discuss progress in Afghanistan in expectation of a Taliban offensive.
May
15 May – Danish protesters clash with police in Copenhagen with the Little Mermaid being doused with red paint. The clashes followed the demolition of a building in the Freetown Christiania district.
25 May – Bjarne Riis admits that he won the Tour de France using banned substances.
August
12 August – Denmark sends a scientific team to the Arctic to try to establish that the Lomonosov Ridge is an extension of Greenland so it can claim sovereignty over oil reserves.
September
4 September – Denmark's intelligence service arrests several people on suspicion of plotting a bomb attack.
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