LA PASADA SEMANA: Resumen de Noticias del 14 al 20 de octubre de 2013
POLITICA/ECONOMIA El líder de la oposición, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, cediendo a la alta presión a la que se ha visto sometido la última semana accedió a publicar los detalles del gasto de un…
MoreLøkke apologises for excessive travel expenditure
Opposition leader Lars Løkke Rasmusen apologised yesterday for his excessive travel expenditure as chairman of the Global Green Growth Institute. At a Copenhagen press conference, where he released 206 pages of invoices, hotel…
MorePress conference strategy was modelled on ‘West Wing’
Lars Løkke Rasmusen’s strategy for his marathon press-conference, Sunday, was a mixture of honesty, perseverance, and staying power that could have been modelled on an episode of the US political series, the West…
MoreLøkke’s press conference: What the papers say
The national press generally agree that opposition leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen performed OK during his marathon press conference, Sunday, but his reputation has suffered a serious setback and he’s going to have to…
MoreLøkke: I won’t quit
Although Lars Løkke Rasmussen has acknowledged that his travel expenditure on behalf of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) was excessive he has no intention of refunding any of the DKK770,000 spent on…
MoreLiberals sink again in new poll
A new Voxmeter poll shows the Liberals have for the first time ever dipped to under their election result. After a week of turbulence surrounding leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen the poll registers just…
MoreRefugee protest to Italy?
The Social Democrats have urged the government to make an official protest to Italy after reports that Syrian refugees have been physically abused by Italian police. The party’s justice spokesperson, Trine Bramsen, claimed…
MoreBishop worked for intelligence agencies
Former Bishop of Copenhagen Erik Normann Svendsen was part of an intelligence network that gathered information about Danish communists during the 1960’s. In an interview with Jyllands-Posten the Bishop, who performed the wedding…
MoreLøkke’s institute rocked by scandal
The Korea-based Global Green Institute (GGI), at the centre of the current travel expenditure scandal involving Liberal leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen, was rocked by a corruption scandal last year. South Korea’s Board of…
MoreGGGI scandal: Minister needs to come clean
The Liberals’ Søren Pind has urged Development Minister Christian Friis Bach to reveal everything he knows about the corruption scandal at the Global Green Institute (GGGI). Mr Pind, who’s spent the last week…
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