2025 in Denmark

Events in the year 2025 in Denmark.

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See also:	Other events of 2025 List of years in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch: Frederik X
• Prime Minister – Mette Frederiksen
• Government: Frederiksen II Cabinet
• Folketing: 2022–2026 session (elected 1 November 2022)
• Leaders of the constituent countries
  • Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands – Aksel V. Johannesen
  • Prime Minister of Greenland – Múte Bourup Egede (until 7 April); Jens-Frederik Nielsen (since 7 April)

Events

January

• 8 January–2 February – The 2025 World Men's Handball Championship in Croatia, Denmark and Norway.^[1]

March

• 11 March – 2025 Greenlandic general election: The centre-right opposition Democrats win a plurality of votes in the Inatsisartut.^[2]

May

• 9–25 May – 2025 IIHF World Championship in Denmark and Sweden.^[3][4]
• 13 May – Kasso, the third facility in the world that produces e-methanol, opens near Aabenraa.^[5]

July

• 1 July
  • The 2025 Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union begins.
  • The conscription of women into the Danish Defence through a lottery system comes into effect.^[6]
• 3 July – Denmark begins its rotating presidency of the European Union.^[7]

August

• 15 August – A passenger train derails after colliding with a slurry tanker at a level crossing near Tinglev, killing one person and injuring 27 others.^[8]
• 26 August – Denmark summons American charge d'affaires Mark Stroh over allegations of US covert operations to promote separatism and annexation in Greenland.^[9]
• 27 August – The Danish and Greenlandic governments issue an official apology for historic abuses against Greenlandic women, including forced contraception.^[10]

September

• 2 September – The Supreme Court rules that Ahmed Samsam, a Danish national of Syrian origin who was convicted and imprisoned on charges of traveling to Syria to join Islamic State, was an informant for both the Danish Security and Intelligence Service and the Danish Defence Intelligence Service.^[11]
• 22 September – Unidentified drones are seen flying over Copenhagen Airport, resulting in major disruptions to aviation.^[12]
• 24 September – Unidentified drones are seen flying over Aalborg Airport, resulting in major disruptions to aviation.^[13]
• 26 September – Unidentified drones are seen flying over Air Base Karup, resulting in the closure of Midtjyllands Airport, which shares the same runway as the base.^[14]

Predicted and scheduled events

• 2 Pctpber – 7th European Political Community Summit.
• 18 November – 2025 Danish local elections^[15]

Culture

Film

• 1 February – The 42nd Robert Awards show takes place in Copenhagen.
• 19–30 March – The 23rd CPH:DOX 2025 documentary film festival takjes place.

Sports

Badminton

• 19 January – Viktor Axelsen wins the India Open.
• 12–16 February – Denmark wins the 2025 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships.
• 2 March – Viktor Axelsen wins the German Open.
• 8 June – Anders Antonsen wins the 2025 Indonesia Open.

Cycling

• 12–16 February – Denmark wins one gold medal, one silver medal and one bronze medal at the 2025 UEC European Track Championships.
• 16 February – Mads Pedersen wins the Tour de la Provence for the second year in a row.
• 23 February – Jonas Vingegaard wins the 2025 Volta ao Algarve.
• 30 March – Mads Pedersen wins Gent–Wevelgem for the second year in a row and the third time in his career.
• 20 April – Mattias Skjelmose wins the 2025 Amstel Gold Race.

Handball

• 2 February – Denmark wins gold in the 2025 World Men's Handball Championship.

Tennis

• 1 February – Denmark defeats Serbia in the first round of the 2025 Davis Cup.
• 20 April – Holger Rune wins the 2025 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell by defeating Carlos Alcaraz 7–6, 6–2 in the final.

Deaths

January–March

• 2 January – Jytte Abildstrøm, actress (born 1934).^[16]
• 4 January – Peter Brandes, painter and sculptor (born 1944)^[17]
• 25 January – Ole Neumann, child actor known for playing Lille Per (da) in the Far til fire series (born 1947)
• 26 March – Kjeld Nørgaard (da), actor known for voicing Kaj on Kaj & Andrea (born 1938)

April–June

• 29 June – Ursula Munch-Petersen, ceramist (born 1937)

July–September

• 11 August – Peter Lund Madsen (da), neurologist, author, and entertainer (born 1960)
• 23 August – Per Holst, film director and producer (born 1939)
• 17 September – Hans Enoksen, Greenlandic politician, prime minister (2002–2009), member (since 1987) and speaker (2018) of the Inatsisartut (born 1956)^[18]
• 25 September – Karen Olsen Beck, Danish-born Costa Rican diplomat and politician, first lady of Costa Rica (1954–1958, 1970–1974) (born 1930).^[19]
• 29 September – Jørgen Leth, filmmaker, poet and sports commentator (born 1937)