Dane in Gaddafi plot released
A 33-year-old Danish national suspected of helping Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Al-Saadi, to flee to escape from Libya has been released after spending the past eighteen months in a Mexican jail. The Danish man…
MoreDanish investment funds outstrip European rivals
Danish investment funds out-performed their European rivals throughout 2012, according to a new report by Morning Star, an independent supplier of financial information and reports. Jens Jørgen Holm Møller, MD of The Federation…
MoreGovernment to intervene in teacher lockout
The government is preparing to intervene in the teacher conflict. According to media reports, ministers have been summoned to an emergency cabinet meeting this morning and an intervention will be announced shortly after, allowing pupils…
MoreCall for gang-leader to be deported
The Danish People’s Party has called on the Justice Minister to deport a Copenhagen gang leader who’s fought in the Syrian conflict. After reports that Abderrozak Benarbe – better known as the notorious…
MoreLong weekend
Tomorrow is Store Bededag in Denmark, translated literally as Great Prayer Day, the fourth Friday after Easter and a public holiday. 7.59 won’t be published but we’ll be back on Monday with all…
MoreAgreement on growth package
The government and opposition reached agreement late last night on phase 2 of the stimulus package, which will provide DKK90bn to boost growth. Finance Minister Bjarne Corydon said he was pleased at the…
More‘The mother of all broken promises’
The far-left Red/Green Alliance has dismissed the government’s stimulus package, agreed by a cross-party majority last night, as the ‘mother of all broken campaign promises’. Party spokesperson Johanne Schmidt Nielsen said the government…
MoreEmpty left-wing threats
Red/Green Alliance leadership has admitted that is has no intention of trying to topple the government by putting forward a motion of no-confidence in Finance Minister Bjarne Corydon. The party’s powerful steering committee…
MoreDanes have poor work ethics
Employers are forced to import cheap manpower from Eastern Europe because Danes on welfare can’t be bothered to look for work, says the political opposition. In response to figures showing that 56,000 East…
MoreNew SPP defection
Another young political talent has walked out on the Socialist People’s Party (SPP). Former head of the party’s youth wing (SFU), Gry Möger Poulsen, is the latest in a long line of ‘up…
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