Tax bosses on safari
Five top tax officials enjoyed an all-expenses paid golf and safari weekend in South Africa paid for by their department’s IT supplier, Accenture. Jyllands Posten has been granted right of access to documents…
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Teens marry Muslims, DPP attacks Muslim-only slaughterhouses, Families hit by oil hike, TB ravages Greenland, AP Møller-Mærsk optimistic An increasing number of teenage Danish girls under the legal age of 18 are entering…
MoreKjær quits
Henriette Kjær has resigned as the Conservatives’ policy spokesman and chair of the party’s parliamentary group. She has also announced her intention to leave politics at the next election, despite being unanimously re-elected…
MoreDid she go or was she pushed?
Conservative leader Lars Barfoed was unable to give a clear answer when asked whether he personally urged Henriette Kjær to step down. Emerging from a meeting of party MP’s this morning he stressed…
MoreSAS is no goldmine
Experts have warned the state not to expect any great financial windfall if SAS is sold. After Minister of Finance Claus Hjort Frederiksen aired the possibility of the flagship airline being sold off…
MoreToyota fire fear leads to recall
Toyota has recalled 3,800 cars on the Danish market because of the potential of engine fires. Anders Tystrup, press secretary of Toyota Denmark, said microscopic tears in the petrol pipe of certain older…
MoreOpposition to reform could lead to election
The Prime Minister’s retirement reform eagerness could trigger off an election, analysts claim. The government hammered out a cross-party social welfare compromise in 2006 alongside the Danish People’s Party (DPP), Social Liberals, and…
MoreNo compensation says minister
Hundreds of thousands of people under 60 could lose all the money they paid into the early retirement scheme in the 1980’s and 90’s if the government is successful in implementing its retirement…
MoreMinister in asylum turnaround
Thousands of immigrants trapped in Greece’s chaotic asylum system could become refugees in Denmark, says Minister of Integration Birthe Rønn Hornbech. In a move that theoretically invalidates the Dublin Agreement requiring refugees to…
MoreDenmark world’s no.2
Denmark is no.2 on a global prosperity comparison of 110 countries, after Norway. The Legatum Prosperity Index claims to be ‘the only only global assessment of wealth and wellbeing; unlike other studies that…
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