LEGO risks profit to fight plastic pollution
LEGO has joined the growing number of leading Danish companies that have become more environmentally conscious (see ‘Business shorts’ below). The global toy giant has announced plans to make all its colourful building…
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Carlsberg ditches plastic wrapping / Maersk turns back the clock / Ørsted opens world’s largest offshore wind farm Brewing giant Carlsberg announced on Thursday it will begin gluing together beers in its packaging in…
MoreLøkke copies Fogh: More welfare the key to election success
The general election might be at least nine months away but the ruling Liberals have already kick-started their campaign by focussing on a key issue for voters – welfare. In full-page newspaper adverts,…
MoreThink tank: Pandering to welfare is the wrong strategy
The Liberals’ new ad campaign focussing on welfare is the ’wrong strategy’ according to the right-leaning think tank CEPOS. Senior economist Mads Lundby Hansen said it’s concerning to see the ruling party boast…
MoreLøkke guest of honour at anti-migrant party’s conference
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s appearance today at the anti-migrant Christian Social Union’s (CSU) two-day summit in the town of Neuhardenberg outside Berlin, alongside controversial US Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, will ‘set…
MoreRufus falls at first hurdle
Former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Rufus Gifford has failed in his bid to become a US congressman. Mr Gifford, extremely popular in this country, finished out of the running in Tuesday’s Massachusetts primary…
MoreSubmarine Slayer challenges life sentence – wants no more than six months
Submarine Slayer Peter Madsen, who earlier this year was found guility of the torture, sexual assault, murder and dismemberment of Swedish reporter Kim Wall, challenged his life sentence before an appeals court Wednesday….
MoreBusiness Minister wants ‘Europe’s strictest’ anti-money laundering laws
Business Minister Rasmus Jarlov is confident that the group of parties currently negotiating stricter laws to prevent a repeat of the Danske Bank money laundering scandal will soon be able to present a…
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Currency reserves unchanged / Pharma giant in Bayer deal / New life for old brewery / Big UK order for Vestas Denmark’s foreign currency reserves remained unchanged in August at DKK468bn, as the…
MorePM dismisses need for migrant freeze ahead of Berlin trip
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has dismissed the need for a ‘German-type’ limit on refugees seeking residency by family reunification. The German government has imposed a monthly cap of 1,000 migrants arriving in…
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