Posted on 09. Nov, 2012 in: News

Serbs seeking asylum

Roma families from Serbia, a country that has EU candidate status, have over the past few months become the largest group of refugees in Denmark, overtaking Afghan and Syrian asylum seekers. A spokesman…

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Posted on 09. Nov, 2012 in: News

New testimony implicates Tax Ministry

Tax director Lisbeth Rasmussen didn’t deliver a ‘smoking gun’ when she testified before the Tax Commission about the Taxgate affair, Thursday, but her testimony indicated that the Copenhagen tax authorities had been put…

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Posted on 09. Nov, 2012 in: News

Housing starts slump by 29.4%

New construction of Danish housing units plunged in Q3, to 1,001, compared to 1,418 in the same period last year, a drop of 29.4% and close to an all-time-low level. Lise Nytoft Bergman,…

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Posted on 09. Nov, 2012 in: News

US ruling provides stock-market boost for Novo

Novo Nordisk shares are expected to rise dramatically today in the wake of an important ruling by the US drug authorities, Thursday. An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted…

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Posted on 09. Nov, 2012 in: News

Muslims stand firm on Christmas tree ban

The Christmas Tree crisis in the social housing complex of Kokkedal, north of Copenhagen, has provoked a national outcry. The local Residents Association, with a Muslim majority, voted against funding a DKK6,000 tree…

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Posted on 08. Nov, 2012 in: News

Who wants to be a millionaire? We all are

Household savings in this country are at an all-time high. New Statistics Denmark figures show that collective net wealth grew by DKK170bn, or 10%, in 2011 which means that every single citizen, on…

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Posted on 08. Nov, 2012 in: News

Novo eyes growing Vietnam market

Novo Nordisk, Denmark’s most valuable company, has signalled a major push in Vietnam by announcing plans to set up an office in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Vietnam, alongside many other countries, has…

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Posted on 08. Nov, 2012 in: News

SAS delays release of Q3 figures

Struggling airline SAS has postponed the publication of its third-quarter earnings report until Monday, when it will at the same time release details of its latest cost-cutting programme. In response to media speculation…

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Posted on 08. Nov, 2012 in: News

Cut price flights to New York

SAS, faced with increased competition and falling passenger figures, has been put under even more pressure by cut-price flyer Norwegian Air which is selling return flights to New York next June for less…

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Posted on 08. Nov, 2012 in: News

BT lined up Taxgate articles shortly before election

Tabloid daily BT allegedly started working on a series of articles concerning Helle Thorning-Schmidt and her husband, Stephen Kinnock’s, complex tax arrangements shortly before the general election was announced in 2011, fuelling the…

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