Boom time in Sweden – bust in Denmark
It’s full steam ahead for Sweden while Denmark could be heading back into recession. New figures from the Statistics Institute in Stockholm show that the Swedish economy grew by 1.2% in the final…
MoreGreenpeace ‘invaded Queen’s privacy’
Environmental organisation Greenpeace is to be prosecuted for ‘an invasion of the Queen’s privacy’. The Ministry of Justice has given the prosecutorial authorities the go-ahead to to bring charges against the three environmental…
More‘Smoking gun’ could trap Birthe
Two highly-placed civil servants claim that Minister of Integration Birthe Rønn Hornbech was personally responsible for denying a group of stateless Palestinians citizenship even though she knew it was in violation of UN…
MorePirates seize Danish family
Pirates have demanded millions of dollars for the release of a family-owned Danish sailboat captured off the coast of Somalia. The boat, with four adults and three children on board – all Danes…
MoreEspersen won’t demand Gaddafi’s resignation
Muammar Gaddafi is finished as Libyan leader – that’s the message Minister of Foreign Affairs Lene Espersen will send in a speech at a human rights forum in Geneva today, without going as…
MoreNo joy for climate proposal
A joint Danish-British proposal to raise the bar for the EU’s climate ambitions isn’t enjoying much success. The two countries have led the way with with a demand to increase the EU’s CO2…
MoreScrap the Ministry says MP
It isn’t just Minister of Integration Birthe Rønn Hornbech who’s past her sell-by date, according to Social Democrat MP Yildiz Akdogan, it’s the whole ministry that should be scrapped if the opposition gains…
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