Posted on 27. Jul, 2015 in: News

Government warns of more migrant restrictions

The government is examining every possibility of how to restrict the number of refugees heading for Denmark. In an interview with Berlingske, Minister for Immigration and Integration Inger Støjberg said she’s looking at…

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Posted on 27. Jul, 2015 in: News

Crackdown on refugees divides Liberals

Integration Minister Inger Støjberg’s warning of more migrant restrictions has split the ruling Liberal Party. Copenhagen City Hall councillor Michael Gatten said the party is building a wall around Denmark and he’s ‘repulsed’…

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Posted on 27. Jul, 2015 in: News

DPP ‘protector of the aged’ cuts elderly spending

Although the Danish People’s Party (DPP) promised to protect benefits for the elderly and even issued a ’dignity guarantee’ during the recent election campaign, local party politicians have over the past year voted…

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Posted on 27. Jul, 2015 in: News

International media follows Danish Nazi hunt

Should Denmark proceed with the prosecution of a 90-year-old Dane who by his own account was present at the Bobruisk camp in 1942-43 when 1,400 Jews were killed there? The Denver Post sums…

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Posted on 27. Jul, 2015 in: News

Danish Navy protects whale slaughter

Environment organisation, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has lashed out at the government for allowing the Danish Navy to help Faroe Island police crack down on activists trying to stop the traditional slaughter…

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Posted on 27. Jul, 2015 in: News

Business shorts

Currency exchanges launder drug money/Noma moves to Australia/Maersk ship tests new Suez Canal Currency: Danish currency exchange bureaus are being exploited to launder drug money for narcotics dealers and organised crime, Jyllands-Posten reported,…

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Posted on 24. Jul, 2015 in: News

Historian: Danish Nazis have gone unpunished

Many Danish war criminals who participated in the Holocaust are free men today because the Danish authorities failed to live up to their reponsibility, historian Christian Bundgaard Jensen claimed yesterday after a 90-year…

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Posted on 24. Jul, 2015 in: News

EU green-lights Denmark-Germany link

The European Commission has approved the public financing model of the Fehmarn Belt fixed rail-road link between Denmark and Germany, considering it in line with EU state aid rules. Denmark’s EU Competition Commissioner…

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Posted on 24. Jul, 2015 in: News

‘Big name hunter’ Vestager targets Mickey Mouse

After taking on US internet giant Google and Russian gas giant Gazprom since she was appointed EU Competition Commissioner last year, former Social Liberal leader Margrethe Vestager has now turned her attention to…

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Posted on 24. Jul, 2015 in: News

Consumer confidence falls again

Confidence among Danish consumers fell for the fourth straight month in July. Despite positive signs for the economy, the latest Statistics Denmark survey figures, published Thursday, show the consumer confidence index dropped to…

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