Posted on 18. Jul, 2011 in: News

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…

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Posted on 18. Jul, 2011 in: News

Massive 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…

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Posted on 18. Jul, 2011 in: News

Banks 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…

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Posted on 18. Jul, 2011 in: News

…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…

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Posted on 18. Jul, 2011 in: spanish

LA 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…

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Posted on 18. Jul, 2011 in: News

DPP: 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…

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Posted on 18. Jul, 2011 in: News

Exports 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…

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Posted on 18. Jul, 2011 in: News

Chop 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…

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Posted on 18. Jul, 2011 in: News

Pay 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…

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Posted on 18. Jul, 2011 in: News

Teachers 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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7:59 – All the Danish News That Fits

7:59 – Danish News Today, is the most reliable source of daily Danish news in English for diplomats, the ex-pat community, the business sector, or anyone in Denmark or abroad seeking an insight into what’s happening in Denmark right now.

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7:59: TODAS LAS NOTICIAS DANESAS DEL MOMENTO.
7:59-Noticias Danesas de Hoy es una nueva fuente de noticias en inglés dirigida especialmente al cuerpo diplomático, extranjeros viviendo en Dinamarca

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