Posted on 04. Sep, 2015 in: News

Tax Minister: Heads will roll

Tax Minister Karsten Lauritzen has warned that public officials could be facing prosecution in the multi-billion tax fraud affair. He said it’s too early to say to what extent former ministers, heads of…

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Posted on 04. Sep, 2015 in: News

Finance Minister says no to Gazprom

Finance Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen has said he would be ’very unhappy’ if Russian gas giant Gazprom became a co-owner of DONG energy after a stock-market listing. In an interview with Bloomberg News,…

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Posted on 04. Sep, 2015 in: News

Danish jets may have caused Iraqi deaths

Danish F16 fighter jets could have been responsible for civilian deaths in an attack in Iraq on August 30th. The countries in the international coalition at war with the Islamic State have launched…

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Posted on 04. Sep, 2015 in: News

Interest rate hike in the pipeline

Faced with the prospect of a new housing bubble, analysts believe the National Bank is preparing to increase interest rates after data showed the Bank used a record amount of its foreign reserves…

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Posted on 04. Sep, 2015 in: News

Business shorts

Bestseller launches foundation to fight poverty / New China-DK route launched/ Danish farmworkers no.1 in productivity Bestseller: Multi millionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, owner of the global fashion company Besteller, has set up an…

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Posted on 03. Sep, 2015 in: News

MEP: Liberals playing ‘Russian roulette’ with Europe’s stability

Liberal MEP Jens Rohde has accused his own party of ‘playing Russian roulette with Europe’s, and Denmark’s, stability’ by refusing to support a pan-EU solution to the ever-growing refugee problem. Although the ruling…

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Posted on 03. Sep, 2015 in: News

Finance Minister on the euro, climate, and migration

If it was up to Finance Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen Denmark would have discarded the krone and adopted the euro a long time ago. In an interview with Bloomberg News Mr Frederiksen says Denmark’s…

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Posted on 03. Sep, 2015 in: News

Government to review citizenship applications

The government is to review thousands of applications for citizenship from people who had originally been exempted from the mandatory Danish language test because of war-related traumas. Normally, parliament passes laws twice a…

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Posted on 03. Sep, 2015 in: News

Social Democrats back call for citizenship restrictions

The Social Democrats are ready to go even further than the government in restricting the right to Danish citizenship. The ruling Liberals believe it’s far too easy today to become a Danish citizen…

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Posted on 03. Sep, 2015 in: News

LA leader: No such thing as social dumping

The term ’social dumping’ is an invention of the trade union movement to protect unrealistically high Danish wages, according to Liberal Alliance (LA) leader Anders Samuelsen. In an interview with the union-backed weekly…

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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-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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