Villy stays away from top-level EU meeting
Under pressure Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal has attracted more criticism for declining an invitation to an important EU meeting in Germany on the 20th of March. The Liberals and Conservatives have claimed that…
MoreInflation costs families DKK600 per month
Consumer prices continue to rise at a fast rate in this country. Inflation is fast approaching 3%, which means the average family with children has around DKK600 ($108) less to spend every month,…
MoreFearless Helle
American news magazine Newsweek has named Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt as one of the ‘world’s 150 most fearless women’, alongside movers and shakers such as Angelina Jolie, Lady Gaga, and Oprah Winfrey….
More7.59 – Danish News Today – The Week That Was, March 5th – March 11th, 2012
Politics The Liberal Alliance urged the Liberals to fight harder against Socialism and criticised their failure to propose constructive solutions. Liberal Søren Pind said benefits reforms could have been implemented by the previous…
MoreThe knives are out for Villy
A number of Social Democrat and Social Liberal ministers believe their cabinet colleagues from the Socialist People’s Party are so incompetent that Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt could be forced to reshuffle her team…
MorePia K: The left is targeting the vulnerable
Danish People’s Party leader Pia Kjærsgaard has launched an attack on the Social Democrats and Socialist People’s Party (SPP), the traditional guardians of welfare, who she claims are targeting ‘society’s most vulnerable’ with…
MoreGovernment’s kick-start violates EU guidelines
The government’s planned kick-start for the economy, the main thrust of its election campaign last year, is in violation of EU recommendations according to the independent think-tank KRAKA. Denmark was one of a…
MoreDoes Foreign Minister approve of torture or not?
International human-rights advocacy group Amnesty International has criticised Minister for Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal (Socialist People’s Party) after his turnaround yesterday regarding the use of information obtained through torture. In the morning, Mr…
MoreYouth unemployment a ‘a major problem’
Youth unemployment in this country is now at its highest level since the 1980’s. 12 per cent of all those between 15 and 29 are unemployed, twice as many as when the crisis…
MoreUser fees for healthcare are unlikely
Minister of Health and Prevention Pia Olsen Dyhr (Socialist People’s Party) has rejected a Social Liberal proposal to reform the Danish healthcare system by impsosing user fees on the wealthy. “We have very…
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