Diplomacy the key to growth say business organisations
Free trade and international cooperation are crucial if a small, open economy like Denmark’s is to grow and thrive in the future. That’s the message from the country’s leading business organisations to roving…
MoreCapital a target for migrant crime
Copenhagen has become a popular destination for foreign criminals. Police data obtained by free daily MetroXpress reveal that nearly four out of five (78%) people who appeared in court last year were foreign…
MoreDONG heads for flotation
Partially state-owned energy giant Dong Energy, Denmark´s largest generator of power and heat, is preparing for a stock market flotation. Quoting ‘sources close to the stock market process’, financial daily Børsen reports that…
MoreBusiness shorts
Wind energy provides good news for DONG/ APM to give away €100m/ DONG targets Asia/ APM employee abducted, then released DONG: The coastlines of the North Sea get pretty windy – all good…
MoreKiller carried Koran
Although the official report of last year’s terrorist attack in Copenhagen failed to mention that 22-year-old terrorist Omar Abdel Hamid el-Hussein was carrying a copy of the Koran (Qu’ran) when he gunned down…
MoreGovernment downgrades growth forecast
Finance Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen has downgraded economic growth expectations for 2016 and 2017. In the government’s latest Stability and Convergence Programme, an economic outlook required by the EU every year in which countries…
MoreSocial Democrats threaten government’s relocation plan
The government’s plan to relocate 4,000 public sector jobs out of Copenhagen has hit a setback after the Social Democrats yesterday pulled their support for moving the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) from Copenhagen…
MoreVolunteer troops to guard borders
The government has given the Home Guard the green light to assist the police control Denmark’s borders in a move that will allow around 165 police officers to return to their own districts….
More‘Racist’ road signs reignite refugee debate
Turn left here and it’s only 4,426 kilometres to Syria – turn right and it’s a 5,317 kilometre road trip to Iraq. Two fake, but very official-looking, road signs set up over the…
MoreAlternatives: Hate preachers shouldn’t be deported
Extremist imams and hate preachers who advocate the stoning of women or call for Sharia legislation in this country shouldn’t be deported, according to the Alternatives who fear a crackdown would comprise democratic…
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