Maersk leads green surge in shipping industry
Shipping giant Maersk is leading the way towards stopping the use of all fossil fuels in the industry. The firm has announced it’s working towards carbon neutrality and has challenged its competitors to do…
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Tour de France boost for business / Rise in foreign workers / Lego targets Middle East… The Danish Business sector can’t stop celebrating Denmark’s role as host the Grand Depart of the Tour…
MoreThe Week That Was, February 18th – 24th 2019
Politics/Economy: More than 25,000 refugees risk being sent home as a result of the government’s ‘paradigm shift’ in immigration policy that will lead to more focus on repatriation and less on integration –…
MoreGovernment opens ‘back channel’ to India on extradition dispute
For the past ten months Denmark and India have held secret talks concerning arms dealer Niels Holck who’s successfully avoided deportation from Denmark since the High Court upheld a lower court ruling in 2011 not to hand…
MoreDPP: Strip foreign fighters of citizenship
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has urged the government to copy the UK, which earlier this week revoked the citizenship of a British foreign fighter who’d travelled to Syria. The populist party’s integration…
MoreJustice Minister: We can’t deny Danish citizens the right to return
Denmark can’t deny Danish citizens the right to return to Denmark, Justice Minister Søren Pape Poulsen said yesterday after the Danish People’s Party (DPP) urged the government to revoke the citizenship of anyone…
MoreSpeaker denounces racism accusation in parliament
Speaker of the House Pia Kjærsgaard was forced to intervene during a heated parliamentary debate, Thursday when a Red/Green MP accused the Danish People’s Party (DPP) of racism. As both sides contested the…
MoreTour de France route revealed as Mayor signs contract
The contract for the DKK 90m (€12m) Grand Depart of the Tour de France in Denmark in 2021 was signed at a ceremony in Copenhagen, Thursday, by Mayor Frank Jensen and race director…
MoreDanish warship joins French Mediterranean exercise
Denmark has despatched a warship to the Mediterranean on a training exercise to help protect the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. According to the Danish Navy, the deployment was made on invitation from…
MoreDanske Bank hit by new U.S. probe
The Danske Bank money laundering plot thickened, Thursday, when Denmark’s biggest bank announced it had received an inquiry from the U.S. stock market watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC inquiry…
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