Task force targets ‘potheads’
530 people have been charged with drug possession in the streets surrounding the ‘free state’ of Christiania since September 1st when the special ‘Task Force Pusher Street’ increased its stop and search tactics…
MoreUS setback for Novo
Denmark’s most profitable company, Novo Nordisk, has suffered a defeat in the USA where the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rejected its application for approval of once-per-day insulin drugs to treat diabetes….
MoreDenmark edges closer to billion-kroner rebate
Reports emerging from budge negotiations in Brussels early this morning indicate that Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt could have won her fight for a DKK1b rebate. According to Berlingske, EU President Heman Van Rompuy…
MoreSøvndal pledges support for jailed activist
Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal has vowed to continue to fight for the release of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, the human rights activist with both Danish and Bahraini citizenship who’s serving a life sentence in Bahrain…
MoreNew newspaper could have provoked murder attempt
A new newspaper highly critical of Islam could be the motive behind the assassination attempt on Lars Hedegaard, head of the Free Press Society. Ms Hedegaard’s editorial partner in Sweden, Inger Carlqvist, claims…
MoreUnion bosses criticise government’s economic policy
A new survey shows that the government has no support for its economic policy from grass roots leaders of LO, The Confederation of Danish Trade Unions, normally staunch Social Democrat supporters. A large…
MoreFinance Minister’s new friends on the right
Criticism from trade unions but praise from the business sector – that’s the rather paradoxical situation faced by Finance Minister Bjarne Corydon after an op-ed piece in Politiken, Friday, in which he states…
MoreDanes lose out to east European workers
Thousands of jobs in this country have been taken by east Europeans who came to work but have stayed on. National Labour Market Authority figures show that 47,459 people from 10 east European…
MoreState demands cut from charity show for Africa
A charity show to be transmitted in aid of Africa, Friday evening, will have to pay state run TV network DR 4.6m kroner ($800,000) in production costs before any of the money raised…
MoreBig profits for Danske Bank
Danske Bank, Denmark’s biggest financial institution, emerged from 2012 with a pre-tax profit of DKK 8.7bn, or DKK4.7bn after tax. Turnover was DKK47.7bn, a 10% increase on the previous year. CEO Eivind Kolding…
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