New agency to speed up reparation process
The Ministry for Immigration & Integration has terminated its contract with the Danish Refugee Council and set up a new agency to deal with the problem of failed asylum seekers who refuse to…
MoreNew poll: DPP on downward slope
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) continues to slump in the polls. A new Megafon poll for TV2 shows the DPP, the biggest party on the right following the 2015 election, with 21.1% and…
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Pension fund puts pressure on Japanese bank….Investors target Brazil’s embassies in rain forest struggle….Novozymes buys Irish company…. MP Pension has joined forces with other international investors to pressure Japan’s Mizuho Bank to stop…
MoreHealth Minister’s corona warning – local regions could be closed down
Health Minister Magnus Heunicke has warned that the government is prepared to close down local municipalities over the summer if regional clusters of the corona virus flare up. In a TV2 interview the…
MoreClimate Minister demands more from EU
Denmark urged the EU to raise its emission reduction target from 40% to 55% by 2030, compared to 1990, at a meeting of climate ministers in Brussels, Wednesday. Prior to the meeting, Climate…
MoreNo decision on UN refugees despite campaign promise
It’s still uncertain how many quota refugees Denmark will accept this year. Integration Minister Mattias Tesfaye said yesterday the government is still determined to live up to its international obligation in 2020, a…
MoreSomething fishy in north Jutland
10 people and two companies in north Jutland have been charged with fishing quotas fraud. The State Prosecutor’s Office for Serious Economic and International Crime (SØIK), popularly known as the fraud squad, has…
MoreVirus updates
33 hospitalised….Corona eradicates influenza…4 Danish Crown workers test positive…. Only 33 people throughout Denmark are currently hospitalised by covid-19, with 8 in intensive care. 603 have died from the virus so far. 12,615…
MoreConsumer spending comeback as confidence returns
Consumer spending has made a comeback. Three and a half months after the country went into lockdown, new figures show that debit card and Mobile Pay transactions are virtually the same as before the crisis…
More93,000 jobs lost during crisis
The labour market shed jobs at an alarming rate in April as the economy closed down. The latest Statistics Denmark figures show 73,000 people registered for unemployment, more than five times the amount…
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