Posted on 17. Dec, 2014 in: News

PM condemns Pakistan school attack

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt joined the worldwide condemnation of the Taleban’s attack on a school in Pakistan that resulted in the deaths of at least 130 children. She said she was ‘appalled’ at…

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Posted on 17. Dec, 2014 in: News

Ambassador: Don’t provoke the Russian bear

Russia is prepared to scale down its military flights close to Denmark, Sweden, and other countries in Europe if NATO halts its military build-up in the Baltic region and Poland, Russia’s ambassador to…

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Posted on 17. Dec, 2014 in: News

PM grilled on Ertirea affair

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has adopted a far more guarded attitude towards the controversial Eritrea report that she praised just two weeks ago. After prime minister’s question time in parliament, Tuesday, when she was…

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Posted on 17. Dec, 2014 in: News

Foreign Minister downplays Turkey’s EU bid

The crackdown on journalists in Turkey will seriously delay the country’s effort to join the EU, Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard said yesterday ahead of the foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels. He said he…

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Posted on 17. Dec, 2014 in: News

Denmark’s Arctic claim OK with Canada – update

In Tuesday’s seven59, with reference to a Jyllands-Posten article, we wrote: “Canada will challenge Denmark’s claim to the North Pole and surrounding 895,000 square metres of ocean bed, Canadian ambassador to Denmark André…

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Posted on 16. Dec, 2014 in: News

Justice Minister distances herself from Eritrea report

Justice Minister has rejected the Immigration Service’s defence of its much criticised fact-finding report on conditions in Eritrea. In an official response to parliament she writes that the Service has still failed to…

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Posted on 16. Dec, 2014 in: News

EU to the rescue for Danish pig farmers?

The EU Commission will decide next month whether to grant emergency aid to farmers so they can stockpile pork that can’t be exported to Russia. After a meeting with his EU colleagues in…

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Posted on 16. Dec, 2014 in: News

Denmark’s Arctic claim OK with Canada

Canada, like Denmark, will also stake a claim to the North Pole and surrounding 895,000 square metres of ocean bed, Canadian ambassador to Denmark André François Giroux said yesterday, stressing though that the…

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Posted on 16. Dec, 2014 in: News

New poll: Immigrants to blame for poor integration

Six out of Danes believe immigrants themselves are to blame for failing to integrate into Danish society. Just one day after a poll showing that a majority of the electorate believes that the…

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Posted on 16. Dec, 2014 in: News

Left wing denounces innovative job seeker as ‘egocentric’

A 20-year-old unemployed girl who was offered 25 jobs after cycling around her local town of Horsens and handing out 70 applications has been dismissed as ‘spoiled’ and ‘egocentric’ by the Red/Green Alliance….

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7:59 – All the Danish News That Fits

7:59 – Danish News Today, is the most reliable source of daily Danish news in English for diplomats, the ex-pat community, the business sector, or anyone in Denmark or abroad seeking an insight into what’s happening in Denmark right now.

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7:59: TODAS LAS NOTICIAS DANESAS DEL MOMENTO.
7:59-Noticias Danesas de Hoy es una nueva fuente de noticias en inglés dirigida especialmente al cuerpo diplomático, extranjeros viviendo en Dinamarca

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