Toll-ring repercussions
The toll-ring project may have collapsed but the repercussions continue to cause headaches for the government. The Red-Green Alliance, the coalition’s guarantor of a parliamentary majority, is demanding DKK800m more to improve collective…
MoreLEGO invests in windmills
Toy giant LEGO has announced plans to build 77 windmills – but not out of its world-famous plastic building bricks. Together with the Oticon Foundation, LEGO will invest DKK4.7bn to buy half of…
MoreSøvndal pleads the case for Danish hunger striker
Minister for Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal will meet with the Bahraini Foreign Minister today in Tunisia to demand answers about the hunger-striking human-rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaj, who was granted political asylum by Denmark…
MoreStudy shows Danes work less, yet have less free time
Danes work an hour less per day on average than they did just 50 years ago, yet they don’t enjoy more leisure time. In a new report from the Rockwool Foundation, researchers analysed…
MoreWhy are Danes so aggressive?
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse – A new survey, commissioned by telecom company Call Me, shows that three out of four Danes believe the public have become increasingly aggressive…
MoreSlight Danish growth in 2012 says EU
The EU Commission has downwardly adjusted its growth projection for Denmark this year to 1.1 per cent, compared to its Autumn 2011 forecast of 1.4 per cent. From: nasdaq.com Denmark’s economic output will…
MoreVoters: The government is embarrassing
Nearly two thirds of the electorate, 63%, believe it’s ’embarrassing’ that the government has been forced to back down on the proposed congestion charge in Copenhagen, one of its key campaign issues. Political…
MoreUS Embassy gets involved in magazine problem
USA’s Ambassador to Denmark, Laurie S. Fulton, has personally written to Danish cabinet ministers voicing her concern about the government’s plan to impose VAT on imported magazines printed outside the EU. Although VAT…
MoreDanish pig breeders head for China
The biggest ever Danish pig farm project is underway in China. A group of Danish investors behind the Scandinavian Farms company, backed by funding from IFU, the Industrialisation Fund for Developing Countries, are…
MoreBerlingske: Toll ring fiasco reflects lack of leadership
The congestion charge fiasco isn’t about traffic – it’s about a government that after six months in power is totally void of political content, and a Prime Minister who lacks leadership qualities and…
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