SAS cabin personnel accept wage cuts
Struggling airline SAS has in all secrecy agreed a crisis wages agreement with its cabin personnel. After publishing disappointing half-yearly figures, Wednesday, tabloid daily Ekstra Bladet revealed that cabin crew have accepted a…
MoreInternational media highlight Kjærsgaard’s immigration policy
International media outlets reporting Pia Kjærsgaard’s exit as Danish People’s Party (DPP) leader focussed on her stringent immigration policy. US news bureau AP wrote that under her leadership the DPP continually pushed for…
MoreThulesen calls for centre-right plan of action
Prospective Danish People’s Party (DPP) leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl has urged opposition leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen to come up with a joint immigration policy agreed by all four centre-right parties before the next…
MoreAnti-EU MEP targets top DPP job
Controversial Danish People’s Party (DPP) MEP Morten Messerschmidt is looking for a key role within the party after Pia Kjærsgaard steps down next month. In response to speculation that he could be offered…
MoreLiberian press defends Danish film-maker
Liberia’s press association has defended Danish film-maker Mads Brügger and urged the Liberian government to put its own house in order before attacking others. After the country’s president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, denounced Mr…
MoreGovernment won’t get involved in labour dispute
Employment Minister Mette Frederiksen has refused to get involved in the ongoing labour contract between the 3F union and Vejelegården restaurant. 3F instigated a lock-out after restaurant employees signed a collective working conditions…
MoreDanske Bank lags behind in Nordic region
Denmark’s leading bank, the Danske Bank, is lagging are behind its Nordic competitors, a Jyllands-Posten review of the half-yearly accounts of six major banking chains in Scandinavia shows. Although the Bank offered a…
MoreSAS slump continues
SAS published disappointing quarterly figures, Wednesday, that again failed to live up to market expectations. Scandinavia’s flagship airline increased its turnover by a modest SEK 371m in Q2 but is still struggling to…
MoreLosses for Lundbeck
Pharmaceutical giant Lundbeck, one of the Danish stock market’s success stories, has reported a Q2 operating loss of DKK118m as revenues were hit by the loss of patent for its popular antidepressant, Lexapro….
MorePia Kjærsgaard to step down
Pia Kjærsgaard, the powerful and charismatic leader of the Danish People’s Party, has decided to step down. After seventeen years at the top, Ms Kjærsgaard announced her resignation to party MP’s last night…
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