Chinese data controversy: Call for new social security numbers
Anybody who suspects their social security number (CPR) has been misused by the Chinese authorities should be offered a new one, the Liberal Alliance suggested yesterday after it was revealed that sensitive health…
MoreTurkish ambassador summoned to ministry
Turkey’s ambassador to Denmark, Mehmet Dönmez, was summoned to the Danish Foreign Ministry, Thursday, to provide an account of the current situation in his country after last week’s failed coup. In the absence…
MoreForeign Ministry monitoring Turkey ahead of state visit
There are no plans to cancel HM Queen Margrethe’s state visit to Turkey in October despite the political turbulence and state of emergency in the country. In an e-mail to web news site…
MoreDPP: Homosexuality is no reason for asylum
Homosexuality doesn’t provide grounds for asylum even if the applicant risks persecution in his or her native country, the Danish People’s Party’s integration spokesman, Martin Henriksen, said last night after it was revealed…
MoreCommissioner questions DPP’s ‘fuzzy’ EU policy
Danish EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has ridiculed the Danish People’s Party ‘fuzzy’ EU policy, which she compared to ‘nailing jelly to the wall’. The former Social Liberal leader said she failed to understand…
MoreHousing market warning
Denmark’s biggest mortgage lender, Nykredit, has warned the housing market may ‘spin out of control’, especially around cities, as long-term negative interest rates make borrowers complacent. From Bloomberg News: “To be concrete, there…
MoreBusiness shorts
Danske Bank profit slips in Q2 / Maersk to fire 140 in Norway Danske: Danske Bank profit slipped 1 percent in the second quarter as income all but stagnated. Denmark’s biggest bank reported…
MorePersonal details of 5.3 million people sent to Chinese agency in data foul-up
Sensitive health data concerning around 5.3 million people in this county – virtually the entire population – has been mistakenly sent to a to a Chinese visa office in Copenhagen, the Danish Data…
MorePolitical condemnation of data leak
Parties on both sides of the aisle have demanded a full report from Health Minister Sophie Løhde as to how sensitive health data and more than five million civil registration (CPR) numbers ended…
MoreFrance and USA go it alone in strike against IS
Denmark hasn’t been asked to increase its military contribution to the fight against the Islamic State (IS) even though France and the United States are preparing a coordinated strike against the militant group’s…
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