Posted on 26. Mar, 2018 in: News

‘Foreign power’ targets Danish universities

Staff at Danish universities have been targeted in a cyberattack conducted by a foreign state, Danish Defence Intelligence (FE) warns in a new threat evaluation. According to FE a foreign power has had…

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Posted on 26. Mar, 2018 in: News

Voters desert LA

Voters are deserting the business friendly Liberal Alliance (LA) while the far-left Red/Green Alliance continues to make gains. A new Epinion poll indicates the coalition partner would win less than 4% of the…

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Posted on 26. Mar, 2018 in: News

Government’s ‘back door’ tax cuts

The government failed in its efforts to pass wide-ranging tax cuts earlier this year but is now trying to ease taxes ‘by back-door methods’, Jyllands-Posten reports this morning. A yet to be published…

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Posted on 26. Mar, 2018 in: News

Submarine Slayer: ‘A loving psychopath’

Inventor Peter Madsen, the ‘Submarine Slayer’ accused of brutally killing Swedish journalist Kim Wall, was described as a man whose sexual fantasies had ‘slowly got out of hand’ by a former girlfriend, Friday….

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Posted on 26. Mar, 2018 in: News

Greenland’s flirt with China worries Denmark

The Greenland government is in talks with Chinese investors and construction firms about possible help to expand three airports, raising political concerns in this country that Chinese involvement in the Arctic island could…

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Posted on 26. Mar, 2018 in: News

Boeing loses legal challenge to fighter jet deal

American aviation giant Boeing has lost its legal challenge to the government’s decision to buy Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II combat jets in preference to its own F/A 18 Super Hornets. Last year Boeing complained…

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Posted on 25. Mar, 2018 in: TWTW

The Week That Was, March 19th – March 25th 2018

Politics/Economy: The opposition’s comfortable lead in the polls throughout winter has evaporated – a new poll indicated a virtual dead heat between the two opposing parliamentary factions if an election was held today….

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Posted on 23. Mar, 2018 in: News

Local Government Denmark embraces Cambridge Analytica’s methods

Local Government Denmark (Kommunernes Landsforening/KL) has spent DKK730,000 (nearly €100,000) of taxpayers’ money on a report that praises the methods used by controversial political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica (CA), which is accused of…

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Posted on 23. Mar, 2018 in: News

Supreme Court overrules defamation verdict against DPP

The Supreme Court has acquitted the Danish People’s Party (DPP) of defaming 684 people by linking them to a potential terrorist. In 2013 the party bought a full-page ad in national newspapers naming…

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Posted on 23. Mar, 2018 in: News

Opposition loses ground in new poll

The Social Democrats’ comfortable lead in the polls throughout winter has evaporated. A new Norstat poll for political website Altinget indicates a virtual dead heat between the two opposing parliamentary factions – if…

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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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7:59: TODAS LAS NOTICIAS DANESAS DEL MOMENTO.
7:59-Noticias Danesas de Hoy es una nueva fuente de noticias en inglés dirigida especialmente al cuerpo diplomático, extranjeros viviendo en Dinamarca

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