Oops! Counting error leaves council with shortfall
Copenhagen Council has admitted to lacking some 73 million DKK for their childcare budget. The reason? Embarrassingly for the Social Democrat-led administration, the shortfall is down to a simple accountancy error. Someone in…
MoreDanish royals huge hit Down Under
Australia has ditched some of its republican tendencies to fawn over the visit of Prince Frederik and Princess Mary from Denmark. Top Aussie commentator, Tony Wright of the Sydney Morning Herald, went so…
MoreEurominister promises only minor changes
Denmark’s Eurominister, Nicolai Wammen, (Social Democrats), stepped into a potential den of lions this week when he suggested that any changes to the basic treaties underpinning the EU would only be minor under…
MoreHousing market suffers lack of confidence
As housing prices continue to drop, confidence in the market has fallen for the third quarter in a row and is now back at the 2009 level. Q4 confidence is at minus 18,…
MoreFogh gets cancer victim’s hospital bed
A terminally ill cancer patient was removed from her bed at the National Hospital (Righshospital), Tuesday, to make way for NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. 44-year-old Susanne Larsen was recovering from an…
MoreVilly’s secret wedding
Villy Søvndal has married for the third time. The 59-year-old Foreign Minister managed to cheat the press by marrying his 41-year-old partner Heid Perto in complete secrecy two weeks ago. According to reports,…
MoreSohn victim of smear campaign say socialists
Under-fire Business Minister Ole Sohn is the victim of a totally unfair smear campaign instigated by Jyllands-Posten, the Danish People’s Party’s Søren Espersen, and the Liberals’ Søren Pind, according to the Socialist People’s…
MoreIran: Pind is a warmonger
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has lashed out at former cabinet minister Søren Pind for claiming that Iran should be threatened with war if it doesn’t halt its controversial nuclear programme. In a lengthy…
MoreDevelopment Minister heads for Burma
Minister of Development Aid Christian Friis Bach will meet both Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the de-facto leader of the opposition, and leaders of the military junta when he travels…
MoreSøvndal shifts position on Tibet – ‘pathetic’ says DPP leader
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has accused Minister of Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal of ‘giving up on Tibet’ just to please Beijing. Mr Søvndal’s refusal to meet Tibet’s newly-elected Prime Minister Lobsang Sangay,…
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