Vestas facing major order problems
Many of the major orders that Vestas has bid on have either been won by competitors or suffered serious problems, leading to warnings that if things don’t improve then both 2013 and 2014…
MoreEvergreen build up could damage Maersk
A massive new shipbuilding programme by Taiwanese Evergreen could destabilise the fragile freight traffic recovery between Asia and Europe and hit the Danish Maersk Line extremely hard, the Shipping Watch net news reports….
More‘Smoking-gun’ memo incriminates Tax Minister
A newly released memo indicates that former Tax Minister Troels Lund Poulsen was more personally involved in the Taxgate affair than he’s previously admitted. In the ‘smoking gun’ memo to the highest-placed civil…
MoreSocialists divided on new leader
The Socialist People’s Party’s (SPP) National Executive Committee is split right down the middle about who should succeed Villy Søvndal as party boss. In a new Berlingske Research survey, half indicate a preference…
MorePolitics is becoming intellectualised
The departure of the Socialist People’s Party’s Villy Søvndal and the Danish People’s Party’s Pia Kjærsgaard is also a goodbye to ‘ordinary’ political leaders, experts claim. Mr Søvndal was a school teacher and…
MoreNew deal for asylum seekers
The government has managed to stitch together a majority for a new asylum agreement aimed at improving conditions for asylum seekers and their children. The Red/Green Alliance’s Johanne Schmidt Nielsen said the new…
MoreFinancial crisis encourages fraud
The financial crisis has encouraged more people to cheat the system. A new report reveals that 10,000 people were charged with social fraud in 2010, twice as many as two years previously. A…
MoreBullying culture at Royal Theatre
Over a third of all employees at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen claim to have been either bullied, ridiculed, threatened, or in one incident, sexually harassed. Professor in Management, Anders Dreje of Aalborg…
MoreVestas has high hopes for super windmill
Wind energy giant Vestas is preparing to launch a new ‘mega turbine’, with a rotor-blade diameter of 126 metres. In a statement released Monday, the company wrote: “The V126 / 3.0 mega watt…
MoreDenmark could lose out in corporation-tax race
Denmark is under pressure to reduce corporation tax, in line with Sweden, Finland, and the UK where rates have been cut to attract companies. Experts warned that Denmark will lose out on investment…
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