Posted on 29. Jun, 2020 in: News

Iranian tied to assassination plot gets 7-year prison sentence

The Norwegian-Iranian accused of plotting to assassinate a leading member of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (ASMLA) was sentenced to seven years in prison by Roskilde District Court, Friday….

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Posted on 29. Jun, 2020 in: News

Consumers rush to spend as shops reopen

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen urged consumers to ‘spend, spend,spend’ last week to help keep the wheels of the economy turning but new figures from Statistics Denmark show they already started to loosen the…

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Posted on 29. Jun, 2020 in: News

Virus updates

New study shows Danes carried virus to Sweden, Iceland, Latvia….Only 31 hospitalised….Fewer bankruptcies despite downturn A team of Copenhagen University researchers has concluded it was ’most probably’ Danes who passed on the corona…

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Posted on 29. Jun, 2020 in: News

Business shorts

1,700 SAS workers fired…..Pension fund invests in European green bond….Authorities approve Ørsted deal…. 1,700 Danish employees of struggling Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) will be receiving a ’pink slip’ –you’re fired notice – this morning….

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Posted on 28. Jun, 2020 in: TWTW

The Week That Was, June 22nd – 27th 2020:

Coronavirus/ What happened last week: Health Minister Magnus Heunicke warned that the government is prepared to close down local municipalities over the summer if regional clusters of the corona virus appear, following an outbreak…

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Posted on 26. Jun, 2020 in: News

Racist party leader gets three months in prison

Rasmus Paludan, head of the far-right Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party was given a three-month jail sentence and disbarred from the legal profession after being found guilty on 14 counts of racism by Næstved…

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Posted on 26. Jun, 2020 in: News

PM puts EU before wedding

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has postponed her wedding scheduled for July 18th in order to attend next month’s EU recovery fund summit, the first physical meeting that leaders will attend since countries enforced…

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Posted on 26. Jun, 2020 in: News

Travel restrictions eased to most EU countries

Danes have been given the green light to travel to nearly all EU countries from Saturday except those with a high level of corona infections, which remain on ‘orange alert’. Foreign Minister Jeppe…

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Posted on 26. Jun, 2020 in: News

Virus updates

Upward tick in hospitalisations…29 infections linked to Pakistan flight…. The number of patients hospitalised by covid-19 rose by three, Thursday, to 36 – nine are intensive care. There were no new fatalities so…

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Posted on 26. Jun, 2020 in: News

No ban on Muslim call to prayers

Parliament has voted down a motion calling for a ban on Islamic call to prayers from Danish mosques. The centre-right Danish People’s Party (DPP), Liberals, New Right, and the Conservatives, joined together in…

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7:59 – All the Danish News That Fits

7:59 – Danish News Today, is the most reliable source of daily Danish news in English for diplomats, the ex-pat community, the business sector, or anyone in Denmark or abroad seeking an insight into what’s happening in Denmark right now.

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7:59: TODAS LAS NOTICIAS DANESAS DEL MOMENTO.
7:59-Noticias Danesas de Hoy es una nueva fuente de noticias en inglés dirigida especialmente al cuerpo diplomático, extranjeros viviendo en Dinamarca

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