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Terma wins fighter jet deal / Latvia looks for Danish investment / Coloplast cuts 300 jobs / Carlsberg boosted by merger rumours Terma: Terma, Denmark’s largest aerospace and defence company, has signed a Memorandum of…
MoreDefence Minister denies funding abuse allegations
Defence Minister Carl Holst has rejected allegations that, as head of the Regional Authority of South Denmark (Region Syddanmark), he broke election campaign rules by spending public money on a personal advisor when…
MoreSocial Liberals challenge their own policy
In a complete turnaround the Social Liberals now believe that refugees should have the right to family reunification soon after arrival. As part of the previous centre-left government the party helped to tighten the…
MoreDPP leader: We can take more refugees
The Social Liberals aren’t the only party trying to soften their previous hard-line refugee policy. In an interview with Berlingske, Danish People’s Party leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl says Denmark should accept more refugees,…
More7,500 refugees in 10 days
At least 7,500 refugees and migrants have crossed the Danish border since Sunday last week according to the latest national police figures. Monday’s estimate was 5,800, which means a further 1,700 have entered…
MoreAsylum seekers get more money in Denmark
Denmark provides some of the best financial conditions in Europe for asylum seekers, according to a new report by The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), a pan-European network of 90 refugee-assisting non-governmental organisations…
MoreDanes charged with people smuggling
20 people, including both foreign nationals and Danes, have been charged with people smuggling since the weekend. The police repeatedly warned last week that transporting refugees across Denmark is illegal and have now…
MoreAmbassador gets troubleshooter role
As expected, Denmark’s ambassador to India, Peter Taksøe-Jensen, has been appointed as Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s personal ‘troubleshooter’ at the Foreign Ministry, with a mandate to to conduct a full-scale review of…
MoreTaxis battle Uber
Copenhagen could soon join the cities around the world that have banned alternative taxi service Uber because of its lack of safety measures and knowledge. News agency Reuters reports that around 300 Danish…
MoreEU refugee agreement
EU interior and migration ministers reached general agreement yesterday on the planned redistribution of some 160,000 migrants throughout Europe, but failed to agree on how to make the plan work. Several member states,…
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