Samuelsen on Europol: We’re nearly there
Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen is confident that Danish police will still play a role in Europol after May 1st when the cross-border police agency becomes a supranational body Denmark was facing total exclusion after…
MoreDPP calls for crackdown on illegal manpower
The authorities should be given the power to shut down any business that employs foreigners without valid work permits, the Danish People’s Party (DPP) said yesterday after it was revealed that 117 Danish…
MoreLast-minute reprieve for food minister
The Danish People’s Party came to the rescue of under fire Environment & Food Minister Esben Lunde Larsen yesterday after a week of threatening to topple him for misleading parliament about fishing quotas….
MoreDPP comeback after EU scandal
After a ‘winter of discontent’ in the wake of the EU funding scandal the Danish People’s Party (DPP) has recovered in the polls and regained its position as the biggest party on the…
MoreDenmark gives DKK40m to UN family planning fund
Denmark has made an extra contribution of DKK40m ($6m) to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which promotes family planning in more than 150 countries, after the U.S. cut its own funding, Monday,…
MoreThink-tank: Tax reform is the key to prosperity
15 years of tax reforms by successive governments have increased employment in this country by 39,000 people and boosted GNP by DKK32bn (€4.2bn), according to a new study by right-leaning think-tank CEPOS who…
MoreExpert: No chance of extradition for Tvind boss
Despite the warm relationship between Lars Løkke Rasmussen and President Enrique Peña Nieto evident during the prime minister’s three-day visit to the country there’s little chance of Mexico extraditing Denmark’s ‘most wanted man’,…
MoreAPM opens $900m terminal in Mexico
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, accompanied by President Enrique Peña Nieto, officially inaugurated A.P. Moeller-Maersk’s new state of the art terminal at Lázaro Cárdenas on Mexico’s west coast, Tuesday. The terminal is the…
MorePET to probe Turkish informant allegations
Danish Intelligence (PET) is to investigate allegations that Danish-Turks have been reported to the authorities in Turkey via an ‘informant hotline’. The police have come under fire for failing to take the allegations…
More2015 election: Immigration was the ‘gamechanger’
Immigration was the key to the centre-right alliance’s victory at the last general election. A new study shows that when health and welfare top the campaign agenda it’s the left that wins but…
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