DPP MEP stripped of EU job
Danish People’s Party (DPP) MEP Morten Messerschmidt, who won a record 600,000 personal votes at the 2014 EU election when the ‘euro-sceptic’ DPP became Denmark’s biggest party in Brussels, has been stripped of…
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Icelandic President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and First Lady Eliza Reid were greeted by HM Queen Margrethe and royal consort Prince Henrik on their arrival in Copenhagen, Tuesday for a 3-day state visit. After…
MoreNovo tops tax list
Global pharma giant Novo Nordisk is the biggest tax contributor in this country. The Tax Authority’s (SKAT) latest ‘open list’, which give the public the right to see the corporate tax returns of…
MoreCompetition authority blocks news merger
Publisher JP/Politikens Hus, owner of both Jyllands-Posten and Politiken, has been blocked from taking over financial daily Børsen in what would have been a DKK800m deal. The Danish Competition Council (Konkurrence og Forbrugerstyrelsen) raised…
MoreBusiness shorts
Swedish bid for TDC / SAS sells Cimber / Ghana open to Danish investment / $572m sales for Genmab TDC: Swedish telecom operator Telia is reportedly considering a bid for Denmark’s biggest telecom…
MoreGovernment moves to stop North African asylum seekers
The government is preparing more anti-refugee measures to reduce the number of young, asylum-seeking, North Africans to an absolute minimum, but at the same time Integration Minister Inger Støjberg has acknowledged that it’s…
MoreMulti-million refugee windfall for state
The drastic drop in the number of asylum seekers in Denmark last year – only 6,300 arrived here compared to the government’s initial projection of 25,000 – has created a multi-million windfall for…
MoreDPP denounces intelligence report
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has been accused of acting like Donald Trump following defence spokeswoman Marie Krarup’s dismissal of Military Intelligence’s (FE) latest warning about Russian aggression as ‘exaggerated’ and a ‘diversion…
MoreDenmark low on financial transparency
Denmark has again received low marks in a global report on financial transparency. Following last week’s report by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which criticised the ‘inadequate’ supervision of the financial sector…
MoreDPP: Women’s rights movement ‘dead and buried’
The battle for women’s rights in this country is ‘dead and buried’ according to the Danish People’s Party’s (DPP) deputy leader, Søren Espersen, who says he’s ‘sick and tired’ of seeing feminists demonstrate…
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