Posted on 04. Nov, 2015 in: News

Police throw refugee kids in prison

The police placed two Syrian families, and their six children, behind bars in September. After strongly denying the episode ever took place, South Jutland police, faced with video evidence, have now admitted that…

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Minister rejects call for ’refugee villages’

Local authorities, struggling to deal with housing thousands of refugees, have suggested setting up small, refugee villages to ease the pressure, but according to Social and Home Affairs Minister Karen Ellemann it’s a…

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Posted on 04. Nov, 2015 in: News

No asylum for Snowden says Løkke

The government won’t be supporting any move to offer US whistleblower Edward Snowden asylum  in this country. After Alternative leader Uffe Elbæk warned during parliamentary question time, Tuesday, that he, alongside the Red/Greens,…

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Breakthrough in multi-billion tax fraud affair

The State Prosecutor’s Office for Serious Economic and International Crime, popularly known as the fraud squad, has located DKK1,7bn of the DKK6.2bn the Danish tax authorities were tricked into paying in fake tax…

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Denmark 3rd most prosperous nation in the world

Denmark is ranked 3rd on the Legatum Institute’s international annual Prosperity Index  for 2015, which ranks countries based on their economic strength, but also on seven other indicators: Education, health, governance, personal freedom,…

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French embassy honours Danish terror victims

The French Embassy in Copenhagen has paid tribute to two Danes killed in last February’s terror attacks. At a ceremony, France’s ambassador to Copenhagen, Francois Zimeray, who in February attended a free speech…

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Foreign exchange reserves down

Denmark’s foreign exchange reserves dropped to DKK492bn in October from DKK514bn the previous month, the National Bank announced, Tuesday. DKK10bn of the decline was due to the Bank purchasing Danish kroner in a…

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Denmark and South Africa sign water deal

Minister for Environment and Food, Eva Kjer Hansen, has concluded a five-year agreement between Denmark and South Africa on closer cooperation in the water sector. From The Ministry of Environment and Food: The agreement was…

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Posted on 03. Nov, 2015 in: News

Opt-out referendum: Voters aren’t convinced by Europol argument

Only 14% of voters believe that Denmark will be forced to leave Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, if a majority decides to maintain the justice opt-out in the upcoming December referendum….

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Posted on 03. Nov, 2015 in: News

Opt-out referendum: What’s it all about?

A new poll shows nearly two-thirds of the electorate are unsure what the upcoming EU referendum is about. 64% of respondents in a Norstat poll for internet news site Altinget can’t explain why…

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7:59 – All the Danish News That Fits

7:59 – Danish News Today, is the most reliable source of daily Danish news in English for diplomats, the ex-pat community, the business sector, or anyone in Denmark or abroad seeking an insight into what’s happening in Denmark right now.

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