The Week That Was, March 10th – March 16th, 2014
Politics/Economy Around 100,000 voters have deserted the Liberals for the Danish People’s Party (DPP) since the 2011 general election, making the anti-immigrant party the former ruling party’s biggest competitor. Speaker of the House…
MoreThe Week That Was, March 3rd – March 9th, 2014
Politics/Economy Opposition leader Lars løkke Rasmussen dismissed EU migrant workers as ‘strawberry pickers’ who are only interested in claiming Danish social entitlements. He was later embarrassed by a report that the former Lib/Con…
MoreThe Week That Was, February 24th – March 2nd, 2014
Politics/Economy Political commentator Hans Engell stated that Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s chances of landing her dream job as president of the European Commission are virtually zero, although the British press believe she’s a…
MoreThe Week That Was, February 10th – February 16th,2014
Politics/Economy The Social Democrats were rocked by a new book ‘The Secret Social Democrat’ an anonymous ‘fly on the wall’ portrayal of the division and political intrigues within the ruling party. After being…
MoreThe Week That Was, January 27th – February 2nd,2013
Politics/Economy The three-party centre-left coalition was reduced to two, Thursday, when the Socialist People’s Party (SPP) dramatically pulled out of the government coalition. Public anger to the DONG sale to US investment bank…
MoreThe Week That Was, January 20th – January 26th, 2013
Politics/Economy Social Minister Anette Vilhelmsen was again accused of lying to parliament after previously unreleased video footage contradicted her testimony regarding a DKK1m grant to the Huset Zorning voters rights organisation. Prime Minister…
MoreThe Week That Was, January 13th– January 19th, 2014
Politics/Economy Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt is facing a parliamentary reprimand, after e-mail correspondence between the ministries of justice and state revealed that the PM’s parliamentary private secretary was informed three weeks before ex-justice…
MoreThe Week That Was, January 6th– January 12th,2013
Politics/Economy Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s prediction of an economic upswing this year was dismissed by Hans Jørgen Whitta-Jacobsen, head of the ‘wise men’ of the Economic Council, who said there are no ‘hard…
MoreThe Week That Was, December 9th – December 15th,2013
Politics/Economy Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt promised that there would be no more cabinet reshuffles this side of an election following the larger than expected reshuffle in the wake of the Red/Green Alliance pulling…
MoreThe Week That Was, December 3rd – December 8th, 2013
Politics/Economy The division between the government and its guarantor of a parliamentary majority, the Red/Greens, continues to grow in the wake of last week’s budget breakdown, with Minister for Business & Growth Henrik…
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