Vestas to announce more cuts?
Stock market analysts predict that Vestas could be forced to implement even more cutbacks to live up to its current share value of DKK40. According to investment company Exane BNP Paribas , new…
More2.10.12 – Forty years in the EU – what next?
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Denmark’s entry into the European Union but growing doubts about increased cooperation have pointed the country towards a crossroads – more involvement with Brussels or a ‘second…
MorePM’s opening speech to parliament today – education not the economy
Just as Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt prepares to give the opening address to parliament today, a new poll shows that support for the Social Democrats’ has fallen dramatically since her maiden speech last…
MoreMcDonalds leads ‘clean capital’ campaign
A new campaign aims to make Copenhagen Europe’s cleanest capital by 2015. Faced with a constant mountain of discarded pizza boxes, burger wrappings, dog dirt, and cigarette butts, Copenhagen Town Hall has given…
MoreIKEA made a mistake in Saudi Arabia say experts
IKEA has come under fire for deleting images of women from the Saudi version of its global catalogue but according to Middle-East culture expert Jørgen Baek Simonsen of Copenhagen University, allowing the images…
MoreInjection clinic for addicts opens today
Copenhagen gets its first supervised injection clinic today, a so-called ‘fixing room’ where drug addicts will be able to legally inject themselves under the watchful eye of a nurse. Although the initiative has…
MoreElectric-car companies to get more help from government
The government will give electric-car companies a much-needed helping hand by exempting them from energy duty. ‘El-cars’ are already exempt from registration tax, but Tax Minister Thor Pedersen (SPP) is preparing new legislation…
MoreCompensation for anti-EU sympathisers?
Copenhagen Police could be faced with an invoice for quarter of a million kroner if 33 anti-EU demonstrators are granted compensation for unlawful arrest in a Copenhagen court case this week. The 33…
MoreDemonstration won’t change my mind says PM
Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has brushed aside the threat of a major demonstration outside Christiansborg, Tuesday, during the official opening ceremony of parliament. 10 public sector unions have announced a joint protest against…
More‘Mama Jane’ on BBC
The story of the Copenhagen grandmother who became a celebrity by refusing gangsters’ demand for protection money has become a news item in the UK. In a BBC News report the 67-year-old Jane…
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