Trump urges immigrants to go home – Denmark offers them money
While President Trump has urged immigrants to ‘go back to where you came from’ the Danish government has taken an alternative approach by offering them a financial incentive to return home. Bloomberg News…
MoreDevil worshippers defile graves in Jutland
Residents of the small town of Hadsund in eastern Jutland woke to a sad sight, Sunday – vandals had spray-painted the Satanic-linked number ‘666’ on dozens of graves and defaced about a 100…
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World’s most groundbreaking new restaurant in Copenhagen / Volvo recalls 6,500 cars in Denmark / Danish Crown cuts jobs due to lack of approval from China….. Alchemist, Copenhagen’s new 6-star restaurant, funded by…
MoreMinister in firing line as data operations are moved to Romania
Defence Minister Trine Bramsen is facing a grilling over why sensitive data information on nearly three million people will in future be stored in Romania. The decision by Denmark’s biggest telecom company, TDC,…
MorePolice pull guns to protect Paludan
Armed police officers protecting Stram Kurs (Hard Line) leader Rasmus Paludan were forced to draw their pistols last week when the anti-Islamist was threatened by local residents during a visit to the social…
MoreMinisters praise ‘excellent’ DK-France relationship
During bilateral talks in Paris, Friday, Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod and his French counterpart, Jean-Yves Le Drian, expressed a desire to continue the ‘excellent relations’ between the two countries after discussing the major…
MoreDenmark preparing to circumvent Iran sanctions
The government is considering signing up to INSTEX, a special purpose vehicle (SPV) set up by the governments of France, Germany and the United Kingdom that enables European businesses to circumvent U.S. sanctions…
MoreDenmark lags behind Nordic neighbours in GDP growth
Denmark’s economy is expected to grow at a slower pace than its Nordic neighbours over the next few years. According to a poll of analysts, Norway is expected to be the fastest-growing Scandinavian…
MoreBaltic Pipe gets environmental approval
While Denmark and Russian continue to bicker over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, the Danish Environmental Protection Agency has given the go-ahead to the Baltic Pipe, a project to supply Norwegian gas to…
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Dansk Bank’s mortgage lender 20% down / Vestas wins Saudi contract / Orsted inks New York deal / Gazprom expects Danish approval for Nord Stream 2…. Realkredit Danmark, the mortgage lending subsidiary of Danske Bank,…
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