Orsted pulls Facebook ads
Partially state-owned clean energy company Orsted has joined Danish toy giant Lego by pulling ads from Facebook in protest against the site’s failures to stop the spread of hate. In a mailed response, Filip Engel,…
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Deutsche Bank fined in US for Danske Bank failures….Corona virus hits industrial production…Facebook donates free heating to Odense residents…. New York state financial regulators said Tuesday that they have slapped Deutsche Bank with a $150…
MoreDivision on the right as anti-migrant parties go head to head
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has become embroiled in a war of words with the anti-migrant ‘New Right’ (New Conservatives). After seeing itself overtaken in the polls by the New Right, the DPP…
MoreNew Right vs. DPP: A fight for survival
The New Right and Danish People’s Party (DPP) have declared war on each other and the battleground is right-wing voters, leading political analyst Jarl Cordua said last night after the two anti-migrant parties…
MoreVirus ‘under control’ – only 23 hospitalised
Only 23 people were hospitalised by covid-19 as of yesterday, four fewer than Friday, while one person died from the virus over the weekend, bringing the death toll to 607. The positive trend…
MoreNewspaper defies High Court ban
Tabloid daily Ekstra Bladet has published alarming video footage from a TV2 documentary that was banned by the High Court last week, showing the mistreatment of a 90-year-old dementia sufferer at an Aarhus…
MoreEnergy agency gives green light to Russian pipeline
The controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline can move ahead through Denmark’s territorial waters after the Danish Energy Agency yesterday approved the use of pipe laying vessels with anchors for its construction. The decision…
MoreInvestors caused krone to weaken, not corona
Currency speculation wasn’t the cause of a weakening in the Danish krone when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, according to the National Bank. In a review of fluctuations over the past 12 years the…
MoreLiberals dismissed call to prayer problem when in power
The opposition Liberals (V) have demanded a ban on the Muslim call to prayer over loudspeakers but declined to pass the same legislation when in power ten years ago. The Liberals, alongside the…
MoreNew ambassador to Germany ignored fraud warnings at Defence Ministry
One of the highest ranking civil servants at the Defence Ministry was informed about possible fraud at the Ministry of Defence Estate Agency (MDEA) in 2016 but failed to act. Berlingske reveals this…
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