Posted on 09. Jan, 2014 in: News

Consumer dreams

Danes dream about spending more money today than they did 12 months ago, even though just one in five actually has more disposable income than a year ago. A new TNS Gallup survey…

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Posted on 09. Jan, 2014 in: News

Employment Minister in hot water

Another cabinet minister has been accused of misleading parliament – this time it’s Employment Minister Mette Frederiksen who, according to Jyllands Posten ‘cosmetically enhanced’ the figures in a report about sick leave. The…

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Posted on 09. Jan, 2014 in: News

Corydon dismisses his own ministry’s figures

Despite calculations from his own ministry showing that zero public sector growth would free-up DKK22bn of public revenue ahead of 2020, Finance Minister Bjarne Corydon has dismissed calls for the government to amend…

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Posted on 09. Jan, 2014 in: News

Greenland demands uranium rights

Greenland’s Prime Minister Aleqa Hammond arrived in Copenhagen for talks with her Danish counterpart, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Wednesday, demanding clear guidelines for her country’s right to mine for, and export, uranium.  At a joint…

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Posted on 09. Jan, 2014 in: News

East Europeans aren’t a burden on the state

A new report from the Ministry of Labour for Parliament’s European Affairs Committee reveals that Eastern Europeans in this country receive social benefits at roughly the same extent as Danish nationals. In the…

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Posted on 09. Jan, 2014 in: News

EU tax ruling could cost the state DKK300m

The Danish tax authorities will be forced to refund around DKK300m this year to Danes who were denied a personal tax allowance because they worked or resided abroad. The tax department is faced…

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Posted on 09. Jan, 2014 in: News

Copenhagen Metro a ‘hopeless investment’

The Metroselskabet, which operates the Copenhagen underground Metro, has dismissed claims by the Productivity Commission that the light rail network is a ’hopeless investment’ The company is currently spending billions to extend the…

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Posted on 08. Jan, 2014 in: News

Chemical weapons action underway

The Danish-Norwegian taskforce has started its mission to carry chemical weapons out of Syria. The OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons), which is monitoring the operation, announced yesterday that the first…

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Posted on 08. Jan, 2014 in: News

New mosque a ‘bridgehead to Qatar’

Copenhagen Town Hall’s Culture and Leisure Administrator (Burgomeister), Carl Christian Ebbessen (Danish People’s Party) has dismissed the new ‘super mosque’ in Rovsinggade, Nørrebro, as a ‘bridgehead for Qatar to recruit extremists’. In an…

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Posted on 08. Jan, 2014 in: News

Danish Islamist killed in Syria

A Danish Islamist has reportedly been killed in the town of Tel Hamees in north-east Syria. The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was aware of reports that a Danish citizen has…

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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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