Ørsted boost for state coffers
The Danish state’s finances are flourishing, mainly due to a significant increase in energy company Ørsted’s (formerly DONG) stock-market value. Statistics Denmark confirmed in a new report released yesterday that at the end…
MoreDenmark has highest prices in EU
A new report confirms what most people in this country already know – Denmark has the highest consumer prices in the EU. A new Statistics Denmark report shows that prices in this country…
More10 arrests in Danske Bank scandal
The Estonian authorities have arrested 10 former Danske Bank employees linked to the money laundering scandal. According to Estonian prosecutors, tax evaders and embezzlers from Georgia and Azerbaijan are among the criminals to…
MoreBusiness Minister vows ‘no sympathy’ for money laundering transgressors
After a total of 10 former employees of Danske Bank in Estonia were detained by police over the course of Tuesday and Wednesday on suspicion of deliberately helping criminals from the former Soviet…
MoreGovernment provides ambassadors with ‘false narrative’ for refugee island project
The government is trying to portray its controversial refugee island project in a more positive light abroad. While voters in this country have been told that conditions for failed asylum seekers and criminal…
MoreIranian asylum seekers get DKK40,000 to return home
40 failed Iranian asylum seekers have voluntarily agreed to return home this year, tempted by a financial bonus of up to DKK40,000 (€6,500). The figures are ‘noticeable’ as previously the government has been…
MoreVestager on EU liberals’ Commission President list
Denmark’s EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager isn’t comfortable about being named as a possible candidate for Commission President next year on a list led by Belgium’s Guy Verhofstadt, who has repeatedly called for…
MoreTax minister reacts to car registration scam
All exported cars will from 2020 need to be evaluated by Tax Department (SKAT) assessors before owners can claim back registration duty. Until 2006 all cars earmarked for exports were evaluated by SKAT…
MoreCriminal tots facing community service
Criminal kids as young as 10 could be forced to carry out community service from next year after a parliamentary majority passed a bill, Tuesday, that according to Justice Minister Søren Pape Poulsen…
MoreDanish hiker slain in Morocco
Denmark’s ambassador to Morocco has travelled to Marrakech to liaise with local authorities after two female tourists, from Denmark and Norway, were found dead on Monday in the Atlas Mountains in the central region…
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