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…
MoreJews 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…
MoreNew 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,…
MoreCopenhagen 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…
MoreClimate 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…
MoreRyanair 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…
MoreBusiness 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…
MoreVoters 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…
MoreReality 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…
MoreTroops 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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