New problems for GGGI
The much-maligned GGGI (Global Green Growth Institute), at the centre of the Lars Løkke Rasmussen travel expenditure controversy last year, continues to suffer problems with its monitoring and accounting systems, according to the Foreign…
MoreNew transport minister wants to privatise trains
Denmark needs to improve its transport network and the only way to do that is to privatise local regional trains and build new motorways, new Transport Minister Magnus Heunicke said yesterday. Whilst stressing…
MoreMore trouble at PET
Two leading PET (Danish Intelligence) officials have been fired, allegedly because they failed to question former head of the agency Jacob Scharf’s aggressive style of leadership. Head of operations, Magnus Andersen, and police…
MoreDanske Bank emerges from crisis
The Danske Bank is ready to declare the financial crisis dead and buried. Impressive year-end accounts containing optimistic key figures indicate that the massive crisis that hit the banking sector, and especially Danske,…
MoreDanske Bank looks to offload 600 homes in Ireland
The Danske Bank is is planning to sell about 600 residential properties around Ireland as it retreats from the country after the real estate meltdown. From Bloomberg News: Danske Chief Executive Officer Thomas…
MorePET leadership ‘arrogant, power hungry’
Employees at Danish Intelligence (PET) found leadership ‘arrogant and power hungry’ a new hard-hitting report of the internal division at the agency finds. The lack of faith in management was so widespread last…
MoreWe could learn from Sweden says PM
Denmark should look towards Sweden for economic inspiration, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt told top business leaders at a Copenhagen conference, Wednesday. She pinpointed two areas where Denmark could learn a lot from its…
MoreSpeaker complains about ‘paparazzi’ methods at parliament
Speaker of the House Mogens Lykketoft has made an official complaint about the ‘paparazzi-like behaviour’ of the journalists and photographers covering events at parliament. In a letter to the chairman of parliament’s press…
More‘Red Ole’ becomes more pro-business
Former business minister Ole Sohn, who defected from the Socialist People’s Party to the Social Democrats earlier this week, has already caused a stir with his new colleagues by urging them to embrace…
MoreFogh Rasmussen criticises Russia
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen criticised Russia, Wednesday, for expanding its border deeper into Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia region. Moscow has defended the move as a temporary step to expand a security zone…
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