Posted on 05. Dec, 2023 in: News

Pharma giant spends 26 million dollars in US lobbying for obesity drug

Denmark’s biggest company, Novo Nordisk, has spent at least DKK177m ($25.8) over the past decade on a massive lobbying effort in the U.S. to encourage doctors and health professionals to promote its anti-obesity…

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Posted on 05. Dec, 2023 in: News

Jews demonstrate outside Israeli embassy

Around 40 Jews carrying placards proclaiming ’Not in Our Name’ demonstrated outside the Israeli Embassy, Monday evening. One of the organisers, Rose Mink Rørdam, said it’s important to speak out against acts of…

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Posted on 05. Dec, 2023 in: News

New Ukraine ambassador

Andriij Yanevskyij, a former head of department at the Ukrainian foreign ministry, will officially assume his duties as the country’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark later this month. He will replace Mykhailo Vydoinyk,…

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Posted on 05. Dec, 2023 in: News

Copenhagen 8th most expensive city in the world but number one for food

Copenhagen is ranked 8th on the 2023 list of the world’s most expensive cities to live in. The city-state of Singapore and Switzerland’s Zurich were named as the most expensive cities in the…

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Posted on 05. Dec, 2023 in: News

Climate news/COP28

The government, alongside the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Mærsk McKinney Møller Centre for Zero Carbon Shipping, have joined forces to  ‘resource and execute pre-feasibility studies for…

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Posted on 05. Dec, 2023 in: News

Ryanair invests DKK 200m in new hub at Copenhagen Airport

Irish airline Ryanair has made a ‘significant’ DKK200m ($29m) investment to re-establish a hub at Copenhagen Airport. The cut-price flyer previously refused to use Copenhagen as a base after the Danish Labour Arbitration…

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Posted on 05. Dec, 2023 in: News

Business shorts

Denmark co-hosts Shanghai shipping fair….Maersk settles Suez Canal lawsuit, announces $500m investment in Southeast Asia…. Denmark will co-host a prestigious shipping fair in Shanghai that gets underway in Shanghai today. In a post…

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Posted on 04. Dec, 2023 in: News

Voters desert Social Democrats as PM’s popularity fades

Christmas has got off to a bad start for Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. A YouGov poll for news site BT indicates that hundreds of thousands of Social Democrat voters have deserted the party…

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Posted on 04. Dec, 2023 in: News

Reality star minister on sick leave

New Minister for Digitalisation and Gender Equality Mia Wagner has taken sick leave after less than a week in the job. Ms Wagner, an investor best known for her role on the Danish…

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Posted on 04. Dec, 2023 in: News

Troops to protect Jewish sites

Troops will be deployed on the streets of Copenhagen this week to assist the police in protecting high-profile Israel and Jewish interests, such as synagogues or the Israeli embassy. At a hastily-called press…

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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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