Muslim faith schools more popular
More and more parents are choosing Muslim free schools for their children. Between 2008-16 the number of pupils at Muslim faith schools rose from 3,592 to 5,453, a new study by the Danish…
MoreEU MEPs criticise airline policy
Danish EU lawmakers have called on airline Air Baltic to stop it policy of asking young pilots to pay for flying its aircraft and passengers – the so-called ‘pay to fly’ scheme in…
MoreUber drivers hit with $100,000 fine
Four former Uber drivers were fined a collective DKK 700,000 ($103,000) at Copenhagen District Court, Monday, for illegal taxi driving. The fines range from DKK45,000 to DKK590,000, depending upon how many trips the…
MoreEnergy minister: Sale of oil assets will fund green transition
Even though Maersk has sold off its oil and gas division to Total, revenue from North Sea fields will continue to finance Denmark’s green transition and the aim to stop using fossil fuels…
MoreTax burden the same for 30 years
The overall level of taxation in this country has remained the same since 1988, despite consecutive governments’ reforms and promises of cutbacks. The latest figures from the Tax Ministry and a new study…
More4,323 migrants stopped by border control
4,323 migrants have been turned away since the government re-imposed border control in January 2016, while 331 people have been charged with human trafficking. At the same time the police have spent 775,000…
MorePolice investigate link between submarine death and Japanese student
The police are investigating a possible link between inventor Peter Madsen, facing a murder rap over the death of Swedish reporter Kim Wall, and the unsolved murder of a Japanese student in 1986….
MoreSocial Democrats accuse government of ‘massaging the figures’
The government’s claim of an extra DKK400m for research spending in the draft budget to be presented this week is nothing more than ‘financial hocus-pocus’, according to the Social Democrats. The opposition party’s…
MoreFewer asylum seekers leads to more development aid
The government projected 10,000 asylum seekers would arrive in Denmark this year but is expected to downwardly adjust the forecast for 2018 to 5,000 in its draft budget to be presented this week,…
MoreSocial Liberals: More development aid only covers up the cracks
On paper, Danish development aid will be given a DKK4,5bn boost next year, but according to the Social Liberals the extra spending created by a significant drop in asylum seekers is an attempt…
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