Asylum seeker agreement divides parties
The government’s intention to send denied young asylum seekers back to Afghanistan has divided parliament along party lines – the Liberals and Conservatives have come to the government’s defence by stating that anyone…
MoreLefties outstrip centrists
The Red/Green Alliance is now bigger than junior coalition partner, the Social Liberals. A new Voxmeter poll for news agency Ritzau shows the far-left party at 10.4 per cent, compared to 8.8 per…
MoreVestas misses out on billion-euro Romania deal
Vestas has lost out on a $1bn deal to become the major supplier to a major new wind-energy project in Romania. The Danish manufacturer had looked to be leading the race but French…
MoreParties send protest letter to King of Bahrain
Every Danish parliamentary party has signed an open letter to the King of Bahrain demanding the release of Danish-Bahraini activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, whose life sentence for allegedly leading an insurgency against the state…
MoreDenmark heading for breach of UN Conventions
Denmark would be in violation of a number of UN Conventions if it starts to send young, failed asylums seekers back to Afghanistan. That’s the conclusion of leading human-rights experts who have examined…
MoreMore bad poll news for PM
Yet another poll confirms the electorate’s negative view of Prime Minister HelleThorning-Schmidt. 49 per cent see the PM as a weak political leader in the new Voxmeter poll for news agency Ritzau, and…
MoreGovernment in secret budget talks with left-wingers
The Liberals are asking why the government chose to hold secret budget meetings with the Red/Green Alliance, Tuesday, just one day after party leader Lars Løkke Rasmusen tried to reach out with a…
MoreSAS targets leisure travellers
After reducing operating costs and purchasing new, more fuel-effective aeroplanes, struggling airline SAS is ready to compete with cut-price competitors. As business travel, a previously lucrative form of income for the flagship airline,…
MoreSuspected terrorist gets prison sentence
The 37-year-old Danish national Thami Najim, who since February has faced charges of terrorism in his native county of Morocco, has been found guilty of ‘subversive activities’ against the state and given a…
MoreDKK200m windfall for new international school
The A.P. Møller and Chastine McKinney Møller Foundation, the family owned majority shareholder of shipping and oil giant A.P. Møller-Maersk (APM), has donated DKK200m to a new international school to be built in Nordhavn, the…
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