Posted on 06. Oct, 2020 in: News

Ex-PM: Danes complacent about sexual harrasment

Denmark’s slowness in embracing the MeToo movement is a reflection of Danes’ complacency about sexual harassment, according to Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Denmark’s first-ever female prime minister. “We’ve long assumed that we’d achieved gender equality,”…

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Posted on 06. Oct, 2020 in: News

Moller-Maersk still Denmark’s biggest

Shipping giant A.P.Moller-Maersk remains firmly entrenched as Denmark’s biggest company. Berlingske’s annual list of the top-100 businesses in this country has APM leading the way, followed by medicinal flagship Novo Nordisk. Transport company…

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Posted on 06. Oct, 2020 in: News

Business shorts

Electric car sales fail to match government’s ambition….Top Danish executive grilled by U.S. Congress…..Denmark leads the way in high-speed broadband…… The government has targetted half a million electric cars on the road by…

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Posted on 05. Oct, 2020 in: News

Ex-PM sued by Latvian bank

Ex-prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen is being sued by a Latvian bank declared insolvent last year after the European Central Bank (ECB) declared it was ‘likely to fail’. The bank owed €32m at…

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Posted on 05. Oct, 2020 in: News

Government’s key ally threatens to pull climate support

The Social Liberals (Radikale) have threatened to withdraw support for the government’s climate bill climate proposal presented last week if it isn’t improved. Party leader Morten Østergaard told Weekendavisen he feels ‘cheated’ by…

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Posted on 05. Oct, 2020 in: News

PM sends best wishes to Trump

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen sent a ‘get well soon’ message to Donald Trump, Friday, after the US president was hospitalised with the corona virus. “I send the warmest greetings to the President and…

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Posted on 05. Oct, 2020 in: News

Party leader forced to step down

Pernille Skipper, titular head of the Red/Greens, has fallen foul of the party’s ’rotation principle’ and will be forced to step down. According to the party’s own rule book no MP can stand…

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Posted on 05. Oct, 2020 in: News

Infection rate stabilises

378 new corona cases were registered Sunday, 8 more than the previous day, as 11 people were hospitalised. Professor Lars Østergaard, infection specialist at Aarhus University Hospital, said the figures indicate that the…

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Posted on 05. Oct, 2020 in: News

Paludan in new Koran provocation

Members of the anti-migrant Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party staged a new Koran-burning demonstration close to an immigrant-dominated district of Fredericia, Friday. Led by controversial leader Rasmus Paludan, party members burnt several copies…

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Posted on 05. Oct, 2020 in: News

Copenhagen fund raises DKK5bn for green investment in Asia

Fund management company Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) is preparing to pump billions of dollars of green investment into Asia as it focuses on the region for a new renewable energy fund. CIP has…

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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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