New health initiatives emphasise individual patients
Minister of Health Astrid Krag has introduced a new health proposal ‘More citizen, less patient’. In total, the proposal will allocate DKK600bn towards improved health initiatives, including setting national targets for the Danish…
MoreECB and National Bank drop interest rates
The Danish lending rate has now hit an all-time record low level. On Thursday, the European Central Bank (ECB) decided to cut interest rates by 0.25 percentage points, and the Danish National Bank…
MoreCroatia confirmed to become 28th EU country
Parliament unanimously approved a bill yesterday that will expand the EU to include Croatia. With the vote, Denmark ratifies the EU treaty, Croatia’s final admission ticket to become the 28th EU country. According…
MoreLEGO to build more bricks in Asia
Riding the wave of its long-term success, family-owned LEGO plans to make Asia is new core market. As part of this business strategy, Blackstone partner Jan Nielsen has been appointed to the company’s…
MoreVestager changes position on party policies
The Radicals have long aimed to introduce the euro in Denmark and establish a shared European policy towards refugees while abolishing Danish EU opt-outs. But the party’s leader, Margrethe Vestager, is starting to…
MoreOutsourced business tends to stay abroad
It is a myth that Danish companies bring their business back home after outsourcing large-scale jobs abroad. According to new figures from Statistics Denmark, for every 100 Danish companies, there are 17 that…
MorePM attacked after May 1st speech
A man was in police custody last night for dousing Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt with water after her May 1st speech in a public park in Aarhus. The PM’s speech had been drowned…
MoreRed/Greens: ‘Social Democrats have abandoned their own voters’
Titular head of the far-left Red/Green Alliance, Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen, used the May 1st forum to launch a full-frontal attack on the government and Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt who she accused of ‘abandoning traditional…
MoreSPP – the ’red’ guarantee
Socialist People’s Party (SPP) party leader Anette Vilhelmsen repeatedly stressed the party’s role as the guarantor of left wing policy within the government coalition during a series of May 1st speeches, Wednesday. She said…
MoreDPP has no government ambitions
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) harbours no dream of becoming part of government even though polls show the anti-immigrant party could possibly form a two-party coalition alongside the Liberals after the next election….
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