Danish bureaucracy is alive and well
A new report claims that if all the laws, rules, and regualions that were introduced in 2011 were printed out, the paper train would be about 6 kilometres long. According to research firm…
MoreBigger wage hikes in public sector
Despite the crisis, wages in the public sector continue to grow. Local government employees enjoyed a 2.4 per cent increase in Q2, which with inflation at 2.5 per cent means they have been…
MoreSwine pest hits Danish-owned farm
17,000 pigs on a Danish-owned farm in Russia have had to be put down and cremated after an outbreak of the feared African swine pest. The Dankub farm in the Krasnodar province in…
MoreMore redundancies at Berlingske
Leading Danish newspaper Berlingske has announced further job cuts, despite an operating profit of DKK67m during the year’s first six months. 83 employees are to be made redundant, just months after 87 were…
MoreYoung man lights joint during cannabis debate at parliament
A young man calmly lit up a joint during an open-doors meeting of Parliament’s Justice Committee, Thursday. As committee members discussed the legalisation of cannabis, the man provocatively broke the law just a…
MoreSchool children get day off to celebrate Muslim festival
The Conservatives have lashed out a Copenhagen School that has given pupils the day off on Monday to celebrate Eid, a Muslim public holiday. 60 per cent of all pupils at the Blågard…
MoreVestager’s budget flirt with oppostion
Social Liberal leader Margrethe Vestager has urged the centre-right to be ‘constructive’ during upcoming budget negotiations. After Liberal leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen threatened last week to utilise any given opportunity to bring down…
MoreFalse diplomat manipulated the facts
Danish journalist Mads Brügger has been accused of seriously manipulating the facts in the documentary, ‘The Ambassador’, which exposes high-level political corruption in Liberia by showing how diplomatic status can be bought. In…
MorePET cover-up?
PET (Danish Intelligence) has been questioned about a possible cover-up in the detention of five suspected terrorists during the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009. One of the suspects, a woman, lodged…
MoreEducation, not prison
The Danish prison authorities have dismissed a Social Liberal proposal that would allow juvenile criminals to get an education instead of being locked away. According to the new proposal, first-time offenders under the…
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