Russian pipeline ‘75% completed’ but still awaiting Danish approval
The controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany is 75% finished but completion depends on securing Danish approval, the consortium behind the project said yesterday. Rainer Seele, the chief executive…
MoreBusiness shorts
Surprising export growth / Pension fund divests oil shares / More electric cars on the road…. Following the government’s ‘state of the economy report’, Nordea Markets noted that the Danish economy grew by…
MoreLiberals’ power struggle gets underway
Although the Liberals’ policy spokesman Jakob Ellemann-Jensen hasn’t officially announced his candidacy for party leader he’s already held secret meetings with his potential deputy, Inger Støjberg, about future policy according to Berlingske analyst…
MoreJensen recounts ‘brutal and direct’ meeting
The Liberals’ Executive Committee ‘night of the long knives’ meeting, Saturday, that led to the ousting of both party leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen and deputy leader Kristian Jensen, was ‘brutal and direct’, the…
MoreActivists were planning violent attack on anti-Islamist
Stram Kurs (Hard Line) leader Rasmus Paludan was denied the right to demonstrate in April because the police had received information about a planned attack on the anti-Islamist. According to police documents obtained…
MoreTrump Baby flies over Copenhagen
Although Donald Trump cancelled his state visit to Denmark he was here ‘in spirit’, Monday when the giant Baby Trump balloon that has followed the president across the world in protests flew over Kongens Nytorv…
MoreRussian nuclear-powered ship to sail through Danish waters
Just one day after it was announced that Denmark has provisionally agreed to buy new, top of the line equipment from the U.S. that will give the Danish Navy the capability to monitor…
MoreUniversity rescinds controversial climate study
Aarhus University has withdrawn a controversial study that downplayed the effects of beef on the climate after it was revealed that the Danish Agriculture & Food Council, a trade organisation that promotes meat…
MoreNational Bank governor refuses to give banks a helping hand
National Bank Governor Lars Rohde has dismissed finance industry appeals to compensate banks for negative interest rates that are costing them money. Sydbank, Denmark’s third-biggest listed bank, recently placed a rate of minus…
MoreLøkke quits
Liberal leader Lars Lokke Rasmussen dramatically resigned, Saturday. The former prime minister avoided waiting reporters after a turbulent Executive Committee board meeting but later tweeted ‘it’s important to keep one’s self respect –…
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