Posted on 12. Aug, 2016 in: News

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Big US order for Vestas / New B&O loss Vestas: Vestas has won its second-biggest order of the year. The Danish wind energy giant has signed a contract with the North American unit…

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Posted on 11. Aug, 2016 in: News

DPP demands immigration crackdown

The Danish People’s Party will demand even stricter immigration restrictions as their price for supporting tax cuts in upcoming negotiations with the government. At the party’s summer get together in Svendborg, Wednesday, party…

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Posted on 11. Aug, 2016 in: News

DPP keeps door open for tax cuts

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) hasn’t completely ruled out the possibility of tax relief for high earners. Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has promised to cut the punitive top rate of income tax…

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Posted on 11. Aug, 2016 in: News

Social Liberals: DPP share same world view as Donald Trump

The centrist Social Liberals have dismissed the Danish People’s Party’s proposed immigration restrictions as ‘Trump light’. The party’s foreign affairs spokeswoman, Sofie Carsten Nielsen, compared the ‘extremist’ policy to Republican candidate Donald Trump’s…

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Posted on 11. Aug, 2016 in: News

More supervision for Muslim free schools

The government has announced moves to stop the flow of ‘secret funding’ into Muslim free schools, which could be donations from foreign organisations or countries whose aim is to spread an Islamic and…

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Posted on 11. Aug, 2016 in: News

State visit to Turkey postponed

HM Queen Margrethe’s planned state visit to Turkey in October has been postponed indefinitely. Citing the three-month state of emergency declared after last month’s attempted coup, Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen said the decision…

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Posted on 11. Aug, 2016 in: News

Asylum seeker threatens to blow himself up

Danish police arrested a 22-year-old Iranian asylum seeker on Wednesday after he threatened to blow himself up on the roof of the reception centre where he was housed near the town of Nyborg, 120…

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Posted on 11. Aug, 2016 in: News

Inflation remains low

The low price of fuel helped to keep the inflation rate down in July, which rose 0.3% on an annual basis, mainly due to a price increase of books, travel, and summerhouse rentals….

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Posted on 11. Aug, 2016 in: News

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LEGO impresses Olympic visitors / Novozymes shares down after poor Q2 result /  TDC shares up LEGO: A bicycle made entirely of 30,000 LEGO bricks has been a big hit with visitors to…

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Posted on 10. Aug, 2016 in: News

More problems for Løkke as DPP moves towards Social Democrats

The prospect of a Social Democrat/Danish People’s Party (DPP) alliance grows stronger by the day. Following Social Democrat leader Mette Frederiksen’s claim, Sunday, that parliament’s two-biggest parties are very close on the issue…

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