‘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…
MoreVoters 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…
MoreGovernment’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…
MoreSubmarine 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….
MoreGreenland’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…
MoreBoeing 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…
MoreThe 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….
MoreLocal 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…
MoreSupreme 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…
MoreOpposition 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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