Government unveils 2025 plan
The government published its much-anticipated 2025 plan, Tuesday, touching on all areas of the economy with moves to boost growth, create jobs, limit welfare entitlements, and slow immigration. The main points: Tax: Prime…
More2025: Emergency brake on refugee influx
One of the key areas of the government’s 2025 plan, published Tuesday, is the emergency brake proposal that would allow the authorities to reject asylum seekers at the borders in times of crisis….
More2025: Lower growth in 2016, 2017
The government has lowered its growth projection for both this year and next, citing an economy struggling to cope with an international slowdown and the prospect of slightly slower growth in Europe in…
More2025: Reduced growth partially due to Brexit
Ahead of negotiations surrounding Great Britain’s impending departure from the EU, the Danish government has suggested the country shouldn’t be allowed to stop paying toward European Union projects that were started while it…
More2025: Snap election if parties refuse to compromise
Despite potential political obstacles in the government’s 2025 plan the prime minister should be able to reach an across the centre deal, leading political commentator Hans Engell said last night. But at the…
More2025: DPP has no worries about potential election
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) isn’t concerned about the prospect of a snap election if cross-party negotiations about the government’s 2025 plan break down. Party leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl warned in a TV…
MoreRefugee island excludes unwanted Danish politicians
The six members of parliament’s Immigration and Integration Affairs Committee who left Copenhagen on Saturday for a fact-finding trip to the controversial offshore detention centre for asylum-seekers on the island of Nauru have cancelled…
MoreNauru government: We aren’t home right now but if you’d like to leave a message……
Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen has been drawn into the visa dispute with the Nauruan government. After hearing the news that three MPs were declined a visa to visit the island’s controversial offshore detention…
MorePM offers compromised tax cut deal
Across the board tax cuts, but not for the country’s highest earners – the main points of the government’s 2025 long-term economic plan aimed at making Denmark DKK 65bn ($10 bn) richer and…
MoreOpposition rejects tax cuts
The Social Democrats have already dismissed the government’s move to cut income tax for those who earn more than DKK467,300 a year. Policy spokesman Nikolaj Wammnen said his party has made it very…
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