Løkke’s respect for DPP
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has expressed his ‘major respect’ for Pia Kjærsgaard and the Danish People’s Party (DPP) and urged the centre-right parties to concentrate on criticising the opposition, not their own…
MoreDPP campaign video ‘tasteless, racist’
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has signalled its intention to put immigrants and integration at the top of the election agenda with a campaign video that shows an elderly woman being beaten up…
MoreOpposition: No empty promises
The Social Democrats and Socialist People’s Party have kicked off their election campaign by casting doubts on their own promises to voters. Previous assurances to implement all campaign promises, ‘more or less’, have…
MoreNegative growth again?
Wednesday could be a day of reckoning for the Danish economy – and the government – when Statistics Denmark publishes the Q2 figures for growth. Economists predict that the economy is facing one…
MoreNordea announces major redundancies
Leading bank Nordea is to slash over 500 jobs in Denmark before the end of 2012. In a massive cost cutting exercise the bank is aiming to reduce its workforce by 2000 employees…
MoreNew polls: Left marching towards victory
Three days into the election campaign and things are looking bad for the government. The latest Voxmeter poll for news agency Ritzau indicates a comfortable 96-79 seat victory for the Social Democrat-led opposition,…
MoreEconomy the no.1 issue
The economy tops the list of voter concern while immigration and integration have become less significant, a new Gallup poll finds. 79% of the electorate believes that economic policy is the dominant issue…
MoreConservatives and Social Liberals – New best friends
The Conservatives have signalled the end of the decade-long Lib/Con/ DPP alliance by vowing to work together with the Social Liberal,s no matter which side wins the election. Dismissing the ‘bloc politics’ that…
MoreConservative/Social Liberal Alliance – ‘a bomb under the election campaign’
Leading political commentator Hans Engell characterised the new alliance between his former party and the centrist Social Liberals as a potential bomb under the election campaign. The former Conservative Party leader said in…
MoreVestager rejects PM speculation
Social Liberal leader Margrethe Vestager has rejected she could emerge as a compromise candidate for Prime Minister. Although the Social Liberals are basking in the massive media coverage of their flirt with the…
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