Posted on 16. Aug, 2019 in: News

Finance Minister runs economy ‘health check’

Finance Minister Nicolai Wammen has order his staff to conduct a review of the state’s finances. In what has become a tradition in Danish politics, when a new government comes to power it…

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Posted on 16. Aug, 2019 in: News

Government ally issues budget warning

The Social Liberals (Radikale) have warned they won’t support the government’s 2020 budget if it threatens the stability of the Danish economy. Party leader Morten Østergaard said yesterday that if the Social Democrats…

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Posted on 16. Aug, 2019 in: News

Brexit problems have made EU more popular

68% of the Danish electorate have confidence in EU, the second-highest in the union, a significant increase from pre-Brexit figures. A new report by Copenhagen think-tank Europa, based on a Eurobarometer survey, shows…

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Posted on 16. Aug, 2019 in: News

Business shorts

Dip in wholesale prices / Vestas adjusts year-end projection / Carlsberg’ earnings outstrip Heineken / New record for Copenhagen Airport….. Domestic market prices fell 3.0 percent annually in July and foreign market prices…

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Posted on 15. Aug, 2019 in: News

Conservative leader: ‘Løkke threw us down the sewer’

Conservative leader Søren Pape Poulsen has launched a full-frontal attack on ex-prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. In an interview with Berlingske today the former justice minister accuses the Liberal leader of ‘betraying’ his…

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Posted on 15. Aug, 2019 in: News

Political right in crisis

The public criticism of former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen reflects the political right’s biggest crisis for 20 years, leading political commentator Hans Engell said last night after Conservative leader Søren Pape Poulsen…

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Posted on 15. Aug, 2019 in: News

Swedish suspects identified in tax agency bombing

Copenhagen Police have identified two Swedish nationals as the main suspects in last week’s explosion outside the Danish Tax Agency’s office in Copenhagen. A 22-year-old was arrested in Sweden on Tuesday, while an…

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Posted on 15. Aug, 2019 in: News

PM: More power to the police

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is ready to give the police increased powers to fight crime, including extended video surveillance of public areas. At a press conference alongside Justice Minister Nick Hækkerup, following the…

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Posted on 15. Aug, 2019 in: News

Banned hate preachers free to enter Denmark

Hate preachers who were banned from Denmark under the previous government will now be allowed entry in the future. Ismail al-Wahwah, leader of the Australian chapter of the international Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir,…

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Posted on 15. Aug, 2019 in: News

Denmark sends €55m to ‘non-cooperative’ countries

Denmark continues to give millions of kroner in foreign aid to countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa that refuse to repatriate their own refugees who’ve been denied residency here. Kristeligt Dagbladet…

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7:59 – All the Danish News That Fits

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