Pat on the back for Obama but no help from Denmark
The Danish government has praised US President Obama’s recently announced steps towards meeting his goal of closing Guantanamo but is still refusing to grant asylum to any released prisoners from the detention camp….
More‘Jihad tourists’ should be stripped of citizenship says DPP
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has called for all ‘holy warriors’ to be stripped of their citizenship. According to left-wing daily Information, both the Liberals and Conservatives are ready to back the DPP’s…
MoreOpposition demands aid transparency
All opposition parties, with the exception of the biggest, the Liberals, are demanding complete transparency from Development Aid Minister Christian Friis Back regarding any issues of Danish aid fraud. After left-wing daily Information…
MoreNorwegian Air catching up on SAS
Norwegian Air could overtake SAS as the biggest airline in Scandinavia within five years, experts predict. Since the cut price flyer bought out the remnants of the bankrupt Sterling Air in 2008 it’s…
MoreThe Week That Was, May 20th – May 26th, 2013
Politics / Economy Finance Minister Bjarne Corydon told parliament’s finance committee that the Danish economy won’t be normalised before 2019 at the earliest, more than ten years after the crisis started. Despite this,…
MoreLA PASADA SEMANA: Resumen de Noticias del 21 al 26 de mayo de 2013
POLITICA/ECONOMIA El Ministro de Finanzas, Bjerne Corydon, anunció al Comité de Finanzas del Parlamento que la economía danesa no empezará a normalizarse sino hasta el año 2019, lo que significa unos diez años…
MoreSocial Minister demands hard line against immigrant parents
Social Minister Karen Hækkerup has demanded a stop to the state’s soft policy towards ethnic minority parents who allow their children to drift into criminality and stay away from school. According to the…
MoreGreen car operator files for bancruptcy
Electric car network operator Better Place has been forced to file for bankruptcy. The company has set up battery-charging stations and battery-switching services throughout Denmark but the number of electric cars on the…
MoreCheating doctors
A number of doctors and physicians have been caught issuing false invoices to the local health authorities for consultations that never took place. One psychiatrist allegedly demanded payment for 159 consultations with a…
MoreLøkke’s trip that never was
Former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen allegedly ‘invented’ an official trip abroad so he could delay giving testimony to the Stateless Commission, currently investigating allegations of a cover up during his time in…
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