minks over concerns about a mutated version of the virus that has spread among the animals.The government had announced the cull despite not having the right to order the killing of healthy animals, an embarrassing misstep that caused it to scramble to build political consensus.The one-party Social Democratic, minority government made a deal late Monday with four left-leaning and center parties to support a law proposal that would allow for the culling of all mink, including those outside northern Denmark where infections have been found.
The law proposal also bans mink farming until the end of 2021.“There is now an agreement that will take care of that," Mogens Jensen, the agriculture minister, said parliament.