Social Liberals demand military intervention in Syria – no says minister
Minister for Foreign Affairs Holger K. Nielsen has rejected Social Liberal calls for military intervention in Syria. As Foreign Ministers gathered in Switzerland, Wednesday, for a peace conference aimed at bringing an end…
MoreDid Social Minister lie to parliament?
Questions are again being asked about Social Minister Anette Vilhelmsen’s role in the ‘Huset Zorning’ affair, after new video footage raised serious doubts about her previous explanations. The Minister testified to a parliamentary committee…
MoreDPP pulls support for DONG deal
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has again urged the government not to sell shares in state-owned energy giant DONG to Goldman Sachs, after it was revealed that the US investment bank has an…
MoreEx-PM denounces DONG sell-off
Former Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen has joined the growing DONG debate by dismissing the multi-billion deal agreed with Goldman Sachs as a ‘catastrophe’. He warned that the Danish state risks losing billions…
MoreNo Christmas boom for retail sector
Pre-Christmas retail sales were very disappointing. Despite hopes of an end of year spending boom to get the economy moving, new Statistics Denmark figures show that retail sales dropped by 1.5% in December and…
MoreMinister defends Denmark’s climate ambitions as EU aims to cut carbon emissions by 40%
Climate Minister Martin Lidegaard vowed to maintain Denmark’s ‘ambitious climate targets’ after The European Commission outlined its plans for climate and energy policy until 2030. A draft proposal sent to all member countries…
MoreSnoops cleared of excessive travel expenditure
Top PET (Danish Intelligence) leaders have been cleared of allegations of misusing their travel allowance accounts. Acting on complaints from PET union officials, the National Police launched an inquiry but after reviewing hundreds…
MoreLiberal MP fights political correctness: ‘Negroes are negroes’
Liberal leadership has distanced itself from a party MP who intends to fight political correctness by using the word ‘negro’ instead of ‘black’. Esben Lunde Larsen started his one-man campaign after a heated…
MoreDenmark promotes ‘joint stabilisation of hotspots’
Three current and former ministers, alongside top Foreign Ministry officals, have joined together to launch a video aimed at promoting the concept ‘integrated stabilisation’ in countries such as Afghanistan, Mali, Somalia, Sudan and…
More‘Assad has to go’ says Foreign Minister
Foreign Minister Holger K. Nielsen characterised a new report charting the Syrian regime’s use of torture and starvation as ‘shocking’ and urged the UN to investigate the possibility of war crime charges against…
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