Ombudsman re-lights Sass Larsen affair
Parliament’s ombudsman has raised serious doubts as to whether two government ministries acted in accordance with the law when they imposed a gag order on the Social Democrats’ Henrik Sass Larsen last September….
MoreTaxgate Commission names witnesses
The ‘Taxgate’ Commission, set up to investigate who leaked confidential details about Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt tax affairs to the press during last year’s election campaign, has released the names of 43 witnesses…
MoreVestas closes China factory
In a move to save €10m, Vestas has announced the closure of a factory in China, making around 350 employees redundant. In a stock-market announcement, the struggling wind energy giant said despite the…
MoreMinisters chairs final EU council meeting
Ministers for European Affairs will meet in the General Affairs Council (GAC) for the last time during the Danish Presidency on 26 June. Danish Minister for European Affairs, Nicolai Wammen, will chair the…
More7.59 -Danish News Today – The Week That Was, June 18th-June 24th, 2012
Politics / Economy After opposition leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen walked out of tax reform negotiations to travel to the climate summit in Rio de Janeiro, the government looked left for a watered-down agreement…
MoreLA PASADA SEMANA: Resumen de Noticias del 18 al 24 de junio de 2012
POLITICA/ECONOMIA Después de que el líder Lars Løkke Rasmussen abandonara las negociaciones sobre la reforma fiscal el pasado domingo para viajar a la Cumbre sobre el clima en Río de Janeiro, el gobierno…
MoreMore broken promises
The government’s tax reform agreement with the opposition is yet another broken campaign promise, according to centre-left voters. A new Rambøll poll shows that two out of three who voted for one of…
MoreVoters desert socialists
The government’s junior partner, the Socialist People’s Party (SPP) has sunk to its lowest level of voter support in years. One day after the party’s ‘crisis summit’, a new Gallup poll for Berlingske…
MoreGovernment signs tax reform deal with opposition
The government has signed a cross-party tax-reform agreement with the Liberals and Conservatives, Friday, side-lining the far-left Red/Green Alliance, its guarantor of a parliamentary majority. After weeks of discussion, Finance Minster Bjarne Corydon…
MoreTax reform will increase inequality, say economists
The tax reform agreement between the government and opposition will definitely increase inequality in society, leading economists claim, but only negligibly. Although Denmark is one of the countries in the world where the…
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