Maersk cuts jobs at Copenhagen HQ
Offshore driller Maersk Drilling has announced plans to fire 70 people at its Copenhagen headquarters in response to the continued market decline and reduced activity level in the oil industry. Claus V Hemmingsen,…
MoreDPP leader defends under-fire MEP
Danish People’s Party leader (DPP) Kristian Thulesen Dahl has refused to rule out a future role within the party for Morten Messerschmidt who was thrown out of the leadership group last Tuesday, following allegations…
MoreNew poll: Centre-right suffers from DPP chaos
A new poll indicates a narrow majority for the opposition parties over the government alliance, which has been hit by the turmoil surrounding the Danish People’s Party (DPP). Only 17.4% of the electorate…
MoreOpposition leader: Sex customers should be denied public jobs
Men who visit prostitutes should be excluded from working in public sector jobs such as teacher, politician, judge, or police officer, according to opposition leader Mette Frederiksen. In a new biography the Social…
MoreQueen Margrethe: ‘We haven’t been very good at integration’
Living in Denmark doesn’t automatically make a person Danish, according to HM Queen Margrethe who in a new book offers her views on Danishness in a country that continues to struggle with integration….
MorePoliticians reluctant to support ban on petrol-driven cars
Danish politicians are reluctant to support the Swedish government’s call for an EU ban on petrol and diesel-driven cars by 2030. After Sweden’s environment minister, Isabella Lovin of the Green Party, welcomed a…
MoreLack of demand could hit growth
Despite signs the economy is improving, consumers’ reluctance to spend and weak global demand could reduce Danish growth to less than 1% in 2017, the same as during the post-financial crisis years, a…
MoreConsumer Confidence hits new low
Consumer confidence worsened for the second straight month in October to the weakest level in forty months, figures from Statistics Denmark showed Friday. The consumer confidence index fell to 1.2 in October from…
MoreThe Week That Was, October 17th – October 23rd 2016
Politics/Economy The Danish People’s Party (DPP) was dogged all week by accusations of misusing EU funding – the party allegedly spent DKK 200,000 granted by the EU-sceptic Movement for a Europe of Liberties and Democracy…
MoreDPP EU scandal – the plot thickens
Kristian Thulesen Dahl is becoming personally entangled in the EU funding scandal. The Danish People’s Party (DPP) leader’s strategy so far has been to place all the blame for the misuse of EU…
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