Denmark doomed to lose EU battle
There’s no doubt that Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt – and Finland – will lose the battle with Brussels about the right to maintain domestic unemployment rules for EU migrant workers. That’s the…
MoreThorning’s turnaround is a wise move says analyst
Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s turnaround on the thorny issue of EU citizens’ right to Danish welfare is a ‘wise move’, Berlingske commentator Thomas Larsen said yesterday after the PM announced that Denmark is…
MoreEU social benefits: Thorning picks her fights says analyst
Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt is ready to challenge the EU Commission on a number of welfare issues where Danish and EU law are in conflict, but not child allowance – so what’s the…
MoreDanes enjoy generous German benefits
New figures from Germany offer an alternative angle to the ongoing child benefits debate. 1,578 Danish national claimed child allowance in Germany last year, according to the labour agency, Bundesagentur für Arbeit, costing…
MoreDPP: Denmark should withdraw from Schengen Area
The disappeared Malaysia Airlines plane provides a strong argument as to why Denmark should pull out of the Schengen free borders agreement, according to the Danish People’s Party’s justice spokesman, Peter Skarup, who…
MorePM refuses to rule out more sanctions against Russia
Prime Minister discussed the Ukraine crisis in phone conversations with British Premier David Cameron and France’s President Hollande, Tuesday. The three, according to the Danish PM, agree that the EU should react ’firmly…
MoreNGO’s come out against GGGI
Four of the country’s biggest NGO’s have urged the government to withdraw Denmark from the controversial Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) as soon as possible. Helle Munk Ravnborg, head of development aid organisation…
MoreDPP calls for criminal asylum seekers to be tagged
The Danish People’s Party want all asylum seekers suspected of being involved in criminality to be fitted with an electronic ankle tag so their whereabouts can be monitored. The party’s integration spokesman, Martin…
MoreReds distance themselves from armed revolution
The Red/Green Alliance no longer believes in political change by armed revolution. In its latest manifesto, agreed by the National Executive over the weekend, the far-left party repeats its aim of public ownership…
MoreLykketoft sharpens the knives against Thorning
Speaker of the House Mogens Lykketoft has turned on his own party by urging the government to ease its ‘brutal’ unemployment benefits reform. The former Social Democrat leader said it’s time for the…
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