Posted on 24. Feb, 2012 in: News

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…

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Posted on 24. Feb, 2012 in: News

LEGO 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…

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Posted on 24. Feb, 2012 in: News

Søvndal 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…

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Posted on 24. Feb, 2012 in: News

Study 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…

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Posted on 23. Feb, 2012 in: News

Why 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…

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Posted on 23. Feb, 2012 in: News

Slight 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…

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Posted on 23. Feb, 2012 in: News

Voters: 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…

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Posted on 23. Feb, 2012 in: News

US 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…

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Posted on 23. Feb, 2012 in: News

Danish 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…

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Posted on 23. Feb, 2012 in: News

Berlingske: 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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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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