Good morning: This is your pilot snoring
An SAS chief pilot took a short nap during a flight from Copenhagen to Stockholm whist his co-pilot was on the toilet. According to an internal safety memo obtained by the Norwegian newspaper…
MoreOpt out keeps Denmark on sidelines
Denmark’s EU opt-out on justice will keep the country out of a new EU initiative to fight crime and terrorism. The European Commission proposed legislation yesterday that will force airlines to provide all…
MoreNo tax breaks says Løkke
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has dismissed all speculation about tax relief. After a day of debate about the Conservatives’ call for tax reductions of DKK35bn, the PM said last night that the…
MoreTax yesterday, public spending today. Conservatives’ ‘scattergun’ policies
A new Conservative proposal for zero public sector growth up to 2015 and a demand to limit spending to a fixed percentage of GDP are expected to create even further division amongst the…
MoreTV correspondent beaten up in Cairo
A Danish TV correspondent in Cairo was assaulted during a direct transmission back to Denmark yesterday. The well-known Steffen Jensen was surrounded and beaten up by by supporters of President Mubarak who demanded…
MoreCompanies pull out
Danish companies are fleeing from the disturbances in Egypt. Global engineering company FL Smidth has sent all its foreign employees out of the country, industrial pump giant Grundfos has sent all local staff…
MoreBus strike
Denmark will be hit by strikes today. Transport unions warned yesterday that bus and train drivers throughout the country are ready to ‘down tools’ in protest at the government’s proposals to phase out…
MoreBerlin sympathisers arrested
Copenhagen police arrested six members of the anarchistic ‘autonome’ group yesterday after a sympathy demonstration of around 250 activists in Nørrebro against the closure of an illegally occupied youth centre in Berlin, where…
MoreDanish business wary of Brazil
Danish companies remain hesitant about setting up in the booming Brazilian economy, expected to become the seventh-largest in the world next year. Jens Olesen, head of the Danish-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in Sao…
MoreTax cut proposals ‘an attack on the welfare state’
The Conservatives demand for DKK35bn in tax relief is a declaration of war on the welfare society, according to Socialist People’s Party Villy Søvndal. He accused the right-wing of using the crisis as…
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