Afghanistan: Fogh Rasmussen reaffirms 2014 pull-out
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said ahead of the military alliance’s defence minsters’ meeting in Brussels, Thursday and Friday, that there’s been no change in the withdrawal policy for international troops in…
MoreDenmark proposes joint purchase of bombs
NATO countries could cut costs by joining together when purchasing bombs and arms – an idea that Defence Minister Nick Hækkerup will be presenting to his NATO colleagues during the next two days…
MoreUS home care provider eyes Danish market
Home Instead, an American provider of home care for the elderly and the largest senior care franchise in the world, is eyeing the Danish market in expectation of strong growth in the private…
MoreIs Danske Bank fighting terrorism with vigilantism?
After being convicted last month of promoting terrorism, the Kurdish television station ROJ-TV has now had its accounts at Danske Bank frozen and been told to find another bank. According to the station’s newsletter…
MoreDanes in debt
Hundreds of thousands of people in this country can’t pay what they owe – and it’s not just those at the bottom of the social scale. A new Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) report…
MorePrime Minister loses her voice but wins accolades
After being heralded by Britain’s Financial Times as the centre-left’s most influential representative within the EU, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt (Social Democrats) was forced to cancel meetings on Thursday with Parliament’s Foreign Policy…
More‘FAT’ not ‘Tobin’ says Vestager
Minister for the Economy Margethe Vestager has suggested a tax on all bank operations instead of the controversial Tobin Tax on all stocks and shares transactions. According to the EU Commission, a European…
MoreRevival of the housing package ‘deeply damaging’
Amid hopes that the former government’s planned housing package would go into effect this year and provide the struggling housing market with a much needed boost by suspending conveyance taxes and duties for homebuyer ,…
MorePesticide dispute
Despite earlier promises, Minister for the Environment Ida Auken (Socialist People’s Party) is reluctant to ban the toxic substance Bentazon, a pesticide used to control weeds growing in bean, rice, and corn fields….
MoreThe Christmas boom that wasn’t
Hopes that Christmas would provide a much-needed boost for flagging consumer demand have been dashed by new Statistics Denmark figures showing retail sales fell by 0.1 per cent from November to December. A…
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