The Week That Was, February 1st – 7th 2016
Politics/Economy The government extended temporary control over the border with Germany by 20 days to February 23rd – Integration Minister Inger Støjberg said the government assessed there was still a possibility that large numbers of…
MoreForeign Minister defends Saudi trip
Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen continues to resist calls to drop an official trip to Saudi Arabia. The Minister, accompanied by the Crown Prince couple, the health and environment ministers, and a business delegation,…
MoreDenmark gives DKK400m to Syria – not enough says left-wing
Denmark has agreed to give a further DKK400m in humanitarian aid to Syria, bringing the total contribution this year up to DKK688m. Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen made the commitment at the Syria…
MoreCameron in Copenhagen today
British prime minister David Cameron arrives in Copenhagen today looking to secure support for the draft agreement which was published on Tuesday by Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council. Mr Cameron…
MoreNo asylum for criminals
A wide, cross-party majority in parliament is ready to tighten the residency rules by denying asylum to any refugee convicted of criminality in this country, whether it be shoplifting, burglary, or sexual violations….
MoreCourt upholds passport seizure
Copenhagen District Court has ruled the police acted correctly when they confiscated the passport of a Danish citizen, Joanna Palani, after she returned to Denmark from the Iraqi Kurdistan region and Kurdish areas…
MoreBusiness minister calls for more productivity
Danish industrial production has been lagging behind since the 1990s and needs to step up a gear, Business & Growth Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said yesterday as he presented the ministry’s annual review…
MoreVestas signs deals in Pakistan, Ireland
It’s been a busy week for Vestas. In Pakistan, the Punjab government and the Danish wind turbine giant signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build the country’s largest windfarm. Jesper Moller Sorensen,…
MoreBusiness shorts
DONG deal for world’s biggest wind farm/Foreign companies face fines/NOVO profit boost DONG: Partially state-owned Dong Energy is going ahead with the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the Hornsea project off the coast…
More‘Trump would drop a nuclear bomb on Denmark’
The Republican Party’s new front-runner, Senator Ted Cruz, has suggested that his opponent, Donald Trump, is so unstable that if he were president he might spontaneously decide to ‘nuke Denmark.’ In response to…
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