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…
MoreCrackdown 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’…
MoreDPP ‘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…
MoreInternational 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…
MoreDanish 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…
MoreBusiness 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,…
MoreHistorian: 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…
MoreEU 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…
More‘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…
MoreConsumer 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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