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…
MoreNew 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…
MoreHousing 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,…
MoreUS 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…
MoreMuslims 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…
MoreWho 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…
MoreNovo 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…
MoreSAS 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…
MoreCut 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…
MoreBT 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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