Posted on 30. Oct, 2018 in: News

MPs denounce White House scare campaign

Danish lawmakers have denounced a White House economic report  that claims living standards in the Nordic countries, including Denmark, are at least 15% lower than in the United States, as a scare campaign. The…

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Posted on 30. Oct, 2018 in: News

U.S. Ambassador coming home to top job

Denmark’s ambassador to the USA, Lars Gert Lose, is returning home to become Permanent Secretary of State, the top administrative position at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen, He replaces Ulrik Vestergaard,…

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Posted on 30. Oct, 2018 in: News

Integration minister agrees to review family reunification rules

Integration Minister Inger Støjberg has agreed to review the requirements for family reunification, the so called ‘chain migration’, following a rise in the number of deportations for foreign-born minors. The Danish media recently…

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Posted on 30. Oct, 2018 in: News

PM lobbied business friends for panda diplomacy funding

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen personally lobbied some of Denmark’s biggest companies for money to help build the new panda compound at Copenhagen Zoo. China offered to loan Denmark two giant pandas during the…

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Posted on 30. Oct, 2018 in: News

Licence plate scanners to help enforce environment zones

Number-plate recognition will play an integral role in the government’s wide-ranging climate proposals presented earlier this month, aimed at reducing CO2 emissions by as much as 37 million tons. According to an internal government…

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Posted on 30. Oct, 2018 in: News

Georgia’s ambassador calls for change in asylum status

Denmark could halt the influx of asylum seekers by declaring Georgia a safe country of origin, Georgia’s ambassador, Gigi Gigiadze, has said. Georgian nationals have become the 3rd-largest group of asylum seekers, after…

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Posted on 30. Oct, 2018 in: News

Danske Bank whistleblower granted immunity

The Danske Bank whistle-blower has been granted immunity from prosecution when he testifies before the Danish parliament next month. Howard Wilkinson, a British national who headed Danske’s trading unit at its Estonia branch…

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Posted on 30. Oct, 2018 in: News

Business shorts

Energy company cleared of abusing market position / Stock market recovers  Elsam, a subsidiary of partially state-owned energy company Orsted, Elsam has been cleared by Danish competition authorities over claims it had broken…

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Posted on 29. Oct, 2018 in: News

Løkke’s climate summit paid for with aid money

The invoice for the P4G (Partnership for Growth) climate summit held in Copenhagen two weeks ago will be covered by Danish development aid funding. Although the final costs for Prime Minister Lars Løkke…

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Posted on 29. Oct, 2018 in: News

New Conservatives: We need to keep Muslims out

Next year’s general election will be a one-issue campaign for the New Conservatives – immigration. At the far-right party’s annual convention over the weekend, leader Pernille Vermlund stressed the message: ‘It’s our country…

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