Løkke: No majority for 2025 plan
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has acknowledged he can’t put together a majority to pass the government’s 2025 economic plan if it includes a 5% percentage point tax cut for high earners. The…
MoreSocial Democrats move towards DPP but ‘no coalition’
The Social Democrats have praised the Danish People’s Party (DPP) but dismissed specualation about an across the centre coalition with the populist party in the future. In response to DPP leader Kristian Thulesen…
MoreLA leader refuses to back down
Liberal Alliance (LA) leader Anders Samuelsen has accused his centre-right ally, the Danish People’s Party (DPP), of ‘delivering Denmark into the arms of the Social Democrats’ by opposing tax cuts. Mr Samuelsen has…
MoreLøkke meets Ban Ki-Moon
After a meeting with Ban Ki-Moon in New York, Sunday evening, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen praised the soon to be ex-UN Secretary General but warned of ‘tough times’ ahead for his successor….
MoreDenmark will refuse to recognise election in Crimea
Speaking on the sidelines of the Yalta European Strategy (YES) forum in Kiev, Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen said Denmark would abide by Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko’s request last week not to recognise the…
MoreBoeing challenges fighter jet deal
US aerospace giant Boeing is preparing a legal challenge to the government’s recommendation that the Danish Air Force upgrades its aging fleet of F-16s with 27 of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II fighter…
MoreNo intervention as currency rates stabilise
The Danish krone has stabilised following the National Bank’s intervention in May and June, when it sold almost DKK 50bn of currency to avert a rise of the krone against against the euro. The…
MoreThe Week That Was, September 11th – September 18th 2016
Politics/Economy Danish People’s Party (DPP) leader Kristian Thulesen repeated his call for a centrist alliance between his own party, the Social Democrats, and the ruling Liberals, instead of the ‘artificial’ electoral blocs that…
MoreSurveillance cameras in Christiania
Christiana residents have agreed to allow the police to set up video surveillance of the ‘free state’. In response to last months exchange of gunfire when two police officers were shot and a…
MoreDanish foreign fighters scam taxman
16 Danish-Syrian foreign fighters are registered as directors of 40 different companies that owe the tax authorities millions of kroner. An investigative documentary, ‘The Islamic State’s Danish Troops’, shown on DR1 last night,…
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