Jewellery company hit with multi-million tax bill
Danish jewellery maker Pandora has agreed to pay DKK995 m ($151 million) to the Danish tax authorities, Skat, after admitting to transfer pricing between 2009 to 2014. Pandora also said its reported tax…
MoreTerror report: Minister criticises ‘negligent’ police
Justice Minister Mette Frederiksen has criticised Copenhagen Police for failing to provide adequate protection for the Krystalgade synagogue in Copenhagen where a private security guard was shot dead in the February terror attack….
MoreIntelligence boss quits ahead of damaging report
The head of Denmark’s intelligence agency (PET) announced his resignation on Wednesday, hours before a government report was released criticising some parts of the police response to the two fatal shooting attacks in…
MoreOpposition: Government has to accept responsibility for terror failures
The opposition Liberals have called on the government to accept responsibility for the police’s mistakes during the Copenhagen terror attack. The party’s justice spokesman, Karsten Lauritzen, said yesterday’s report, which highlighted the police’s…
MorePM in UK to support husband
Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt is in the UK today to support her British husband, Stephen Kinnock, who is running for a seat in Wales where Britain’s Labour party has dominated politics since the…
MoreNo legal motive to stop bus campaign
Bus company Movia’s own lawyer believes there was no reason to pull the advert calling for a boycott of goods produced in Israeli settlements. In an internal memo, obtained by Politiken, the lawyer…
MorePay with cash? No thanks
‘Cashless shops’ – one of the new proposals in the government’s latest stimulus package for the business sector that will be presented at a government seminar in Helsingør today. For a three-year trial…
MoreMaersk ship to be released…or sold?
An Associated Press report that the Maersk Tigris cargo ship, seized by Iranian forces as it was traversing the Strait of Hormuz last month, will likely be released in two days after it…
MoreBanking union membership dependent upon mortgage protection
Denmark is ready to stay outside Europe’s bank union as long as it takes to achieve a broad range of concessions for its $450 billion mortgage finance system. From Bloomberg News / Washington…
MoreEnergy agency shuts down fracking site
A controversial fracking site in Dybvad, northern Denmark, was shut down yesterday just two days after exploratory drilling started. Total had started drilling for shale gas on Monday, but the Danish Energy Agency intervened after it was…
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