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SAS passenger figures up / Chr Hansen looks for African expanision / B&O deal with China ‘unsure’ SAS: Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) transported 2.25 million passengers in March as traffic increased by 4% compared…
MorePM on Panama Papers: ‘I feel cheated’
Moving money out of Denmark to avoid taxation is ‘totally unacceptable’ Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said yesterday, characterising the Panama Papers affair as ‘disheartening and destructive’. In his first public statement on…
MoreChurch minister advises asylum seekers to wait with Christian conversion
Ecclesiastical Affairs Minister Bertel Haarder has urged Danish priests not to baptise asylum seekers converting to Christianity before their application for asylum has been granted. Following reports that hundreds of asylum seekers in…
MoreAlternatives dump Muslim MP candidate
A former spokesman for the radical Grimhøj Mosque in Aarhus who threatened to bomb Aarhus University and has equated Israel with Hitler won’t be running as an MP candidate for the Alternative Party…
MoreConservatives ‘the greenest party on the right’
The Conservatives have been rewarded for their hardline stance in the recent stand-off with government over the agriculture bill, which cost Eva Kjer Hansen her job as environment minister. 36% of respondents in…
MoreGade in line to replace Løkke
Former defence minister Søren Gade is the voters’ favourite to succeed Lars Løkke Rasmussen as Liberal Party leader if, and when, the PM chooses to step down. Although Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen has…
MoreGovernment’s public sector relocation plan under investigation
The Public Auditors will scrutinise the government’s much criticised plan to relocate 4,000 public sector jobs out of Copenhagen. The government has already doubled its original estimate for what Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has characterised…
MoreRacist spitter fined DKK5,000
A man who spat on refugees as they walked along a Danish motorway has been fined DKK5,000 after being found guilty of racism. The image of the 58-year-old man spitting from a bridge…
MoreSchool shooting
A 21-year-old man was in police custody last night after a shooting incident at a school in the town of Stensved, south of Copenhagen. The police declined to offer details but acknowledged there…
MoreGovernment issues new oil and gas licences
The government issued 16 oil and gas exploration licences in the North Sea, Wednesday, just days after A.P. Moller-Maersk threatened to shut down the country’s main gas field, Tyra. The licences were awarded…
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