Government shelves moves to stay in Europol – will wait for referendum
Denmark risks being kicked out of Europol, the EU police agency, but the government has shelved plans to fight for a special agreement that would allow the cross-border cooperation to continue. Europol comes…
MoreSaudis promise to help find shooters
Saudi Arabia has promised to do everything within its power to find who was behind the attempted murder of a Danish worker in the capital of Riyadh. After talks with members of the…
MoreBattle against Islamic State will take years says minister
The international coalition has made significant progress in its fight against the Islamic State but it will take years to wipe out the fanatical movement, Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard said yesterday after a…
MorePro-government media in Eritrea praises controversial report
The controversial Danish Immigration Service (DID) report on conditions in Eritrea is being employed by the pro-government media in the east African country to refute torture allegations. The repressive regime’s supporters have welcomed the…
MoreDenmark no.1 in cancer
Denmark has the highest rate of cancer amongst all developed nations. The latest OECD health report shows that Denmark, often described as a ‘smoker’s paradise’, has the highest incidence of breast and lung…
MoreBudget surplus on the horizon
Danish public finances could be heading for a surplus for the first time since 2008 and contrary to government forecast of a deficit, economists said on Wednesday. From Reuters: As of Nov. 24,…
MorePopulist party forces new election Sweden: Demands Danish asylum restrictions
Sweden will hold fresh elections in March after the populist, anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats joined the centre-right opposition to vote down the government’s budget, plunging Sweden into its worst government crisis in decades. From the Financial…
MoreDanish spyware peddler fined $500,000
A Danish citizen has been fined half a million dollars in the US state of Virginia for advertising and selling a spyware application (app) that could remotely monitor calls, texts, videos and other…
MoreBusiness shorts
Telecom merger / Nordea employee commits suicide / Arla drops Egypt bid Telecom: Telenor and Telia have joined forces to create Denmark’s biggest telecom company. Norwegian Telenor and Sweden’s TeliaSonera have agreed…
MoreDenmark least corrupt country – again
Denmark is again the least corrupt country in the world according to the 2014 Corruption Index by Transparency International to be published today. The index ranks countries on a scale from 0 (highly…
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