Posted on 25. Jan, 2017 in: News

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…

More

Posted on 25. Jan, 2017 in: News

Icelandic state visit

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…

More

Posted on 25. Jan, 2017 in: News

Novo 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…

More

Posted on 25. Jan, 2017 in: News

Competition 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…

More

Posted on 25. Jan, 2017 in: News

Business 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…

More

Posted on 24. Jan, 2017 in: News

Government 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…

More

Posted on 24. Jan, 2017 in: News

Multi-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…

More

Posted on 24. Jan, 2017 in: News

DPP 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…

More

Posted on 24. Jan, 2017 in: News

Denmark 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…

More

Posted on 24. Jan, 2017 in: News

DPP: 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…

More

7:59 – All the Danish News That Fits

7:59 – Danish News Today, is the most reliable source of daily Danish news in English for diplomats, the ex-pat community, the business sector, or anyone in Denmark or abroad seeking an insight into what’s happening in Denmark right now.

More

7:59: TODAS LAS NOTICIAS DANESAS DEL MOMENTO.
7:59-Noticias Danesas de Hoy es una nueva fuente de noticias en inglés dirigida especialmente al cuerpo diplomático, extranjeros viviendo en Dinamarca

More