Falck makes inroads in lucrative US market
Danish security and emergency services company Falck has bought out the Californian ambulance company CARE and is close to inking a deal to buy an even bigger company, Lifestar, on the East Coast….
MoreMore bomb scares at Rome embassies
Police, fire engine and bomb disposal experts rushed to the embassies of Denmark, Venezuela and Monaco in Rome this morning after the discovery of suspicious looking packages but all turned out to be…
MoreAn unpopular PM
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen is scaring off voters – even those from his own party. A new poll of Liberal voters shows that just 9 per cent have strengthened their willingness to…
MoreConservative leader feels the heat
The other half of the government’s ‘dynamic duo’, Conservative leader Lene Espersen, is also becoming less and less popular with her own grass-roots support. In a new survey of the party’s constituency chairmen…
MoreDane accused of organ trafficking cover up
Danish diplomat Søren Jessen-Petersen, former head of UNMIK, the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, has been accused of covering up a report on organ trading. When Mr Jessen-Petersen was head of…
MoreDanish energy company buys from dangerous Russian mines
State-owned energy company DONG has failed to live up to its own ethical guidelines when buying coal from dangerous Russian mines. According to tabloid daily Ekstra Bladet, miners working for DONG’s main coal…
MoreMærsk harassment allegation
Oil workers on Mærsk platforms in the North Sea have accused the company of harassment. According to a new report by the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT), which represents workers in the…
MoreDanish link to Dutch anti-terror raid.
Terrorist charges against two Somali nationals holding Danish documents have now been dropped by the Dutch police. The two men were amongst 12 people of Somali origin arrested near Rotterdam, Christmas Eve, on…
MoreLeft wing will cut spending
The two main opposition parties have vowed to trim the public sector if they gain power at the next election. The Socialist People’s Party’s Ole Sohn and the Social Democrats’ Henrik Sass Larsen,…
MoreEat your Christmas tree says top chef
Instead of throwing your used Christmas tree in the rubbish bin this year, try cooking it instead. In an op-ed piece in the New York Times, head chef René Redzepi from the Noma…
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