Lithuania visit to boost trade
The business sector is hoping today’s visit to Denmark by Lithunia President Dalia Grybauskaitė will boost trade between the two countries. Thomas Bustrup, Deputy Director General of the Confederation of Danish Industry (DI) characterised…
MoreDrop in asylum seekers saves government €750m
There are no signs of Denmark being inundated by a late summer surge of migrants, as happened exactly one year ago when the images of hundreds of refugees walking along the motorway towards…
MoreDenmark dismisses Russia’s Arctic overture
Denmark has dismissed Russia’s call for direct, bilateral talks to decide who owns great parts of the Arctic Denmark has laid claim to the area surrounding the North Pole as it’s connected to…
MoreOrder to crack down on pro-Tibet demonstrators ‘came from the top’
Newly released Foreign Ministry documents appear to confirm that Copenhagen Police were ordered to clamp down on pro-Tibet demonstrators in 2012 by high-ranking government and civil service officials. Former foreign ministers, top civil…
MoreRussian surveillance over Denmark
Russian air force observers are to conduct a flight over Denmark this week in accordance with the Treaty on Open Skies ‘programme of unarmed aerial surveillance’. Sergei Ryzhkov, the head of Russia’s Nuclear Risk…
MoreSmoking is the biggest killer in Denmark
A new Danish Health Authority reports shows smoking was the cause of 13,368 premature deaths in 2013, far outstripping other health issues such as alcoholism, drug addiction, and physical inactivity. Professor Knud Joel…
MoreInflation at 63-year low
The consumer price index rose 0.2 percent year-over-year in August, slightly slower than July’s 0.3 percent stable rate of climb. The latest igures from Statistics Denmark show the underlying inflation rate that excludes…
MoreSwedish company wins energy contract but project in doubt
Swedish wind energy company Vattenfall has won a tender to develop two wind farms with a total capacity of 350 MW in the offshore area outside Hvide Sande and Thyborøn on the west…
MoreCopenhagen ‘World’s Most Liveable City’
Copenhagen is ranked the ‘world’s most liveable city’ by New York style, architecture and design magazine Metropolis. The Danish capital was 4th on last year’s list but has now taken over the top spot…
MoreIntegration Minister: Sorry, we’re full up
The government will no longer accept UN quota, or ‘resettlement’, refugees. Denmark has since 1989 accepted 500 refugees annually who the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has determined are in need of protection, but…
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