Rape charge against diplomat dismissed without investigation
An African diplomat in Copenhagen has been accused of raping and assaulting a domestic employee. Josephine Sekre, a 24-year-old woman from the Ivory Coast who was a housekeeper for the unnamed diplomat, claims…
MorePrime Minister: EU can learn from us
Ahead of this week’s EU summit on youth unemployment, the Danish PM and her Nordic counterparts, Sweden’s Fredrik Reinfeldt and Finland’s Uyri Katainen, have fired off a joint letter to EU President Herman…
MoreCrisis has cost the state billions
The state has suffered a multi-billion kroner loss during the economic crisis. Public sector debt at the end of Q1 this year was DKK131.5bn, new Statistics Denmark figures show, compared to a DKK112.6bn…
MoreMayor goes green
Although Copenhagen City Council places tough environmental demands on vehicles in the capital, Mayor Frank Jensen continues to drive around in a polluting, diesel-power vehicle. However, after a new report showing that 67…
MoreDanish shares get Chinese boost
Danish shares rose steadily throughout the day on Copenhagen Stock Market, Tuesday, after China’s central bank calmed investors’ nerves by stating it would use tools to safeguard stability in money markets and would…
MoreHelle Thorning: An unlikely ‘comeback kid’
Recent encouraging opinion polls for the Social Democrats and a couple of political missteps by opposition leader Lars Løkke Rasmuusen have fuelled media speculation about a post-summer political comeback for beleaguered Prime Minister…
MoreDanes want more welfare
A significant majority of voters are against the Liberals’ plan to freeze public sector expenditure. In a new YouGov poll for the trade-union backed news magazine, Ugebrevet A4, 60 per cent say that…
MoreGovernment’s ‘erratic’ tax policy
The opposition has ridiculed the government’s ‘erratic’ tax policy after new finance ministry figures showing that 49 duties and taxes have been slashed, by DKK11.6bn, but at the same time 91 have been…
MoreNorth sea deal ‘stinks’ say Red/Greens
The Red/Green Alliance said yesterday there’s ‘something fishy’ in the 2003 North Sea oil deal agreed between the former Lib/Con government and the consortium headed by A.P. Møller-Maersk (APM). In response to new…
MoreAlleged North sea losses are nonsense says ex-minister
Former Finance Minister Bendt Bendtsen has dismissed left-wing claims that the Danish state has lost up to DKK124bn on the deal he negotiated with the North Sea oil consortium in 2003 as ‘complete…
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