Queen upsets environment organisations
HM Queen Margrethe’s comments that ‘it’s impossible to stop climate change’ have been given the thumbs-down by environmental organisations. The Danish monarch’s assertion during her recent trip to Greenland that there’s no point…
MoreMassive increase in dangerous bacteria
The Social Democrats have called for a national plan of action to stop the spread of the dangerous Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacterium, after new figures revealed that the number of people infected…
MoreBanks pass stress test
Four leading Danish banks – Danske Bank, Jyske Bank, Nykredit, and Sydbank – have been given a clean bill of health by the European ‘stress test’. Bank analyst Christian Hede of Jyske Bank characterised the…
More…but stress test is no safety net
Passing a test isn’t a guarantee that the share price of Danish banks will continue to rise, senior strategist Henrik Drusebjerg of Nordea said today in response to initial signs of stock-market optimism…
MoreLA PASADA SEMANA: del 11 al 17 de julio de 2011
POLITICA El líder del partido Conservador, Lars Barfoed, se negó a garantizar que su partido forme una coalición en un nuevo período gubernamental aunque el PM Lars Løkke Rasmussen logre mantenerse en el…
MoreDPP: Pind has failed
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has accused Søren Pind of failing to live up to the promises he laid out when taking over at the integration ministry four months ago. In what appears…
MoreExports down
Danish companies continue to lose market share abroad. New figures from the EU’s statistics office, Eurostat, show that Danish exports shrunk by 1.8% to 2.4% of all 27 EU countries’ collective sales to…
MoreChop down those trees says environment minister
Environment minister Karen Ellemann is determined to go ahead with plans to de-forest Østerild Klitplantage to make way for the world’s biggest test centre for wind turbines. After a weekend of demonstrations against…
MorePay up – or else
100,000 companies could end up in the black books of the notorious RKI agency for debtors if they don’t pay what they owe to the taxman. Merete Norup, head of department at the…
MoreTeachers have an easy life
A majority of the public believes that schoolteachers don’t work hard enough. In a new survey, 54% say that long summer, Easter and Christmas breaks, in addition to a slew of public holidays,…
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