State joins Maersk’s North Sea venture
The Danish state-run Nordsøfonden has become a 20 per cent stakeholder in the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC), responsible for oil and gas deposits in the North Sea, alongside the three current shareholders, Maersk,…
MoreVestas buy-out?
Shares in Danish wind-energy giant closed 2.42 per cent down, Monday, after a turbulent day of trading following a Chinese newspaper report that Ming Yang Wind Power is seeking to buy out Vestas for…
MoreDrug seizures
Danish police seized 240 kilos of amphetamine last year, the highest amount for 12 years, but far less ecstasy. Kim Klever, head of the National Investigation Centre, said the crackdown on organised crime,…
MoreLeading Social Democrat: “We’d rather give up power than let extremists run the country”
The ruling Social Democrats have launched a counter-offensive against the Red/Green Alliance, the government’s guarantor of a parliamentary majority. In response to weeks of criticism from the former communists, culminating in a nationwide…
MoreAttack on Red/Greens is a ‘dangerous game’ says analyst
Henrik Sass Larsen is playing a ‘dangerous game’ by dismissing the Red/Green Alliance as a bunch of ‘Marxists, Trotskyites, and Leninists who aren’t fit to run the country’, according to Berlingske political analyst…
MoreRed/Greens: ‘Government in crisis’
The Red/Green Alliance’s parliamentary ‘whip’, Pernille Skipper, responded to the attack from her Social Democrat counterpart by claiming it’s the government’s policies, not criticism from the far-left party, that’s led to the coalition’s…
More‘Sass-Larsen has thrown ‘red’ majority into trash can’
Former Socialist People’s Party MP Leif Hermann, a staunch critic of his party’s role in the government coalition alongside the Social Democrats and Social Liberals, characterised Henrik Sass-Larsen’s attack on the Red/Green Alliance…
More7.59 -Danish News Today – The Week That Was, July 2nd – July 8th, 2012
Politics / Economy 55 per cent of voters said in a new poll that their confidence in Ms Thorning-Schmidt’s ability to lead the country has fallen since last year’s election, mirroring the Social…
MoreLA PASADA SEMANA: Resumen de Noticias del 2 al 8 de julio de 2012
POLITICA/ECONOMIA Un 55% de los votantes dijo, en una última encuesta, haber perdido la confianza en la habilidad de la Primer Ministro, Helle Thorning-Schmidth, para liderar el país lo que refleja la estrepitosa…
MoreRed/Greens aim to get government ‘back on track’
The Red/Green Alliance has heightened the pressure on the Social Democrat/Socialist People’s Party (SPP)/Social Liberal coalition by starting a nationwide campaign under the banner ‘Get the Government Back on Track’. Over the next…
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