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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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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…
MoreDPP 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…
MoreSocial 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…
MoreMore 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…
MoreState 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…
MoreAsylum 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…
MoreInflation 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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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…
MoreMore 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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