Posted on 12. Sep, 2019 in: News

Health advisory against ‘vaping’

While lawmakers in this country are reluctant to impose any further restrictions on cigarette smokers, the Danish Health Authority (Sundhedsstyrelsen) has advised children, youths, pregnant women, and breast-feeding mothers against smoking e-cigarettes. Head…

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Posted on 12. Sep, 2019 in: News

Illegal strikes cause airport disruption

The Conservatives’ Rasmus Jarlov has summoned Finance Minister Nicolai Wammen and Labour Minister Peter Hummelgaard to a parliamentary consultation to explain why baggage handlers at Copenhagen Airport were allowed to go on strike…

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Posted on 12. Sep, 2019 in: News

Global travel guide urges tourists to stay away from Copenhagen

Less than one year after praising Copenhagen as the world’s best city to visit’, globally famous travel guide Lonely Planet has now warned tourists against visiting the capital ‘because it’s become too popular’….

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Posted on 12. Sep, 2019 in: News

Despite scandals, National Bank governor decries excessive regulation

In a speech to industry insiders this week National Bank Governor Lars Rohde criticised Denmark’s financial sector for a long line of recent scandals, including the high-profile money laundering affair at the country’s…

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Posted on 12. Sep, 2019 in: News

Business shorts….

National  Bank expected to follow ECB, cut deposit rates / IKEA snaps up Vestas’ Romanian turbines /  LEGO is still Denmark’s leading brand…. According to reports the National Bank is preparing to cut…

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Posted on 11. Sep, 2019 in: News

Jihadists behind multi-million tax fraud

Danish jihadists are suspected of masterminding a multi-million VAT fraud in this country. A review of court documents and bankruptcy filings by left-leaning daily Information reveals how a business network of Syrian foreign…

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Posted on 11. Sep, 2019 in: News

Where’s Løkke? (Planning a new party?)

Ex-Liberal leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen has gone underground since he dramatically quit ten days ago. The former prime minister has failed to attend party meetings and has been conspicuously absent from Twitter and…

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Posted on 11. Sep, 2019 in: News

Vestager wins new term as competition commissioner

Denmark’s Margrethe Vestager, who ahead of this year’s EU election was on a short list to become president of the EU Commission, has been appointed to an unprecedented second term as the EU’s…

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Posted on 11. Sep, 2019 in: News

Danish Crown opens new factory in China

Danish Crown, the world’s largest pork exporter, has opened a new factory in Pinghu, China, around 100 km from Shanghai. At the official opening ceremony, Tuesday, Minister for Food & Fisheries Mogens Jensen, who’s currently…

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Posted on 11. Sep, 2019 in: News

Medicine exports boost trade figures

Denmark’s exports grew much faster than imports in July, boosted by sales of pharmaceutical products. According to Allan Sørensen, senior analyst at the Confederation of Danish Industry, ‘the world economy may be struggling…

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