Auditors to review DONG deal
The National Audit Office is to investigate the previous government’s sale of a major shareholding in energy company Dong Energy, following allegations that the price paid could have been too low. Parliament’s finance…
MoreDPP would consider supporting alternative PM
The Danish People’s Party’s said on Thursday that they are open to supporting alternatives to Lars Løkke Rasmussen as prime minister. The move comes only a day after party leader Kristian Thelesen Dahl…
MoreAuditors: Military can’t afford its new jets
The Public Auditing Committee has cast doubt on the current funding strategy for the air force’s 27 new F-35 fighter jets. When a parliamentary coalition agreed to purchase the jets in June, the funding…
MoreDanish ‘development aid’ doesn’t match OECD criteria
The government has been accused of violating international rules by funding its refugee repatriation programme from the development aid budget. DKK 56m from development spending in 2017 has been allocated to repatriate refugees…
MoreEU court overturns bank’s DKK 310m repayment to state
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has reversed an EU Commission ruling labelling the Danish response to the 2009 financial crisis as “state aid”, cancelling the DKK310 million that the commercial bank FIH…
MoreBusiness Shorts
Shell sells refinery/Fund contemplates buying TDC/ Maersk poaches new customers Shell: Oil giant Shell has sold off a $500m oiefinel rry in Frederecia to the Danish Oil Corporation, a company run by a…
MoreDPP leader: Bloc politics ‘outdated’
Danish People’s Party (DPP) leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl has again called for a close centrist alliance between his own party, the Social Democrats, and the ruling Liberals, instead of the ‘artificial’ electoral blocs…
MoreDenmark to head Ukraine anti-corruption programme
Denmark is to head an EU anti-corruption programme for Ukraine, which according to the Danish Foreign Ministry is the most corrupt country in Europe. The scheme, worth DKK120m (€16m), will take off on…
MoreOpposition leader ‘unfit’ to become PM
Opposition leader Mette Frederiksen’s failure to present an alternative economic plan makes her unfit to lead the country, Integration Minister Inger Støjberg said yesterday. After the government came to power last year it…
MoreNational Bank: Brexit a bigger problem for UK than EU
Britain’s decision to leave the European Union will cause the U.K. more problems than it will the remaining 27 members in the bloc, according to National Bank Governor Lars Rohde. In an interview…
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