Posted on 10. Aug, 2012 in: News

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…

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Posted on 09. Aug, 2012 in: News

International 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…

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Posted on 09. Aug, 2012 in: News

Thulesen 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…

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Posted on 09. Aug, 2012 in: News

Anti-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…

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Posted on 09. Aug, 2012 in: News

Liberian 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…

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Posted on 09. Aug, 2012 in: News

Government 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…

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Posted on 09. Aug, 2012 in: News

Danske 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…

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Posted on 09. Aug, 2012 in: News

SAS 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…

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Posted on 09. Aug, 2012 in: News

Losses 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….

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Posted on 08. Aug, 2012 in: News

Pia 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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7:59 – Danish News Today, is the most reliable source of daily Danish news in English for diplomats, the ex-pat community, the business sector, or anyone in Denmark or abroad seeking an insight into what’s happening in Denmark right now.

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