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Magasin set to be sold / NETS buys Polish credit card company / Vestas wins deals in Australia, Panama British department store chain Debenhams is reportedly considering selling off the trendy Magasin store…
MoreLøkke ‘bigs up’ employment figures
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has grossly exaggerated the government’s job rate success for Danes. In a Facebook video earlier this year the PM proclaimed how proud he was that ‘more than 100,000…
MoreSocial Democrats demand clarification about Løkke’s asylum project
The Social Democrats have summoned Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen to a parliamentary consultation to provide details about his claim of international support for his proposal to house failed asylum seekers at a…
MoreNew EU setback for Denmark
Denmark is facing further EU embarrassment. After the government last week acknowledged defeat for its efforts to convince the EU to index child benefits for migrant workers to living costs in the country…
MoreDPP MP equates Ramadan cake with Islamism
Supermarket chain Bilka has dismissed accusations it’s promoting Islamism by selling an ‘Eid Mubarak’ cake to celebrate the end of the Ramadan festival. In a Facebook post Danish People’s Party MP Kenneth Kristensen…
MoreHealth Minister: No evidence of Støjberg’s Ramadan warning
Ellen Trane Nørby (V) has dismissed Integration Minister Inger Støjberg’s controversial message that all working Muslims should take leave from work during Ramadan ‘to avoid negative consequences for the rest of Danish society’. In…
MoreRussian nuclear depot near Bornholm?
New satellite images indicate that Russia has developed a nuclear storage facility in Kaliningrad, close to the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information…
MoreFaroe Islands push for independence
The Faroe Islands are gradually moving towards full independence from Denmark. The islands, with a population of only 50,000, were granted autonomy in 1948 but backed by an unlikely alliance of the left,…
MoreTop man at Foreign Ministry to replace ex-Finnish PM
Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen’s ‘right hand man’ Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen is leaving Denmark to become the new deputy secretary-general at the OECD. He replaces former Finland prime minister Mari Kiviniemi but will remain at the…
MoreGermany, Holland query Løkke’s asylum project
Germany and Holland have distanced themselves from Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s proposal to house failed asylum seekers at a location outside the EU. The prime minister claimed earlier this month he had held talks…
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