Samuelsen on Syria – no peace plan, no reconstruction
There can be no reconstruction of Syria without a peace plan, Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said yesterday, adding that President Bashir al-Assad would need to be excluded from any long-term political settlement. Ahead…
MoreDPP calls on business sector to fund growth measures
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has laid out 20 new growth initiatives aimed at giving the business sector a much-needed boost. The new measures, with a price tag of DKK1.047bn, are split into…
MoreTvind dispute could disrupt PM’s Mexico visit
The Mogens Amdi Pedersen affair could cast a shadow over Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s official visit to Mexico today. The 77-year-old Petersen, founder of Tvind, the global Danish humanitarian organisation often referred…
MoreEx-PM upsets Aussie hosts
Ex-prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has stirred up a controversy in Australia by dismissing the country’s foreign aid budget as ‘paltry’. Ms Thorning-Schmidt, who stepped down as Social Democrat leader after losing the 2015…
MoreBig-name companies fined for hiring illegal manpower
117 companies were collectively fined more than DKK 5.5m (€670,000) for employing illegal manpower last year, including ’big names’ such as A.P. Moller-Maersk, Novo Nordisk, The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Odense Hospital,…
MoreSlight hike in jobless rate
Unemployment increased slightly in February, after remaining stable in the previous two months. The seasonally adjusted jobless rate rose to 4.3 percent in February from 4.2 percent in January, the latest Statistics Denmark…
MoreTurkey spied on Denmark
Journalists, schools, and organisations in Denmark with an alleged ‘anti President Erdogan agenda’ are being spied on by the Turkish authorities, contrary to denials by the country’s embassy in Copenhagen. According to confidential…
MoreAsylum seeker repatriation cost DKK87m
Denmark has spent DKK87m (nearly $13m) on the repatriation of failed asylum seekers since 2011 at a cost of DKK36,000 per deportation. New figures from the Police Centre for Foreign Nationals also reveal…
MoreYear-end growth encourages optimism
The Danish economy’s upward trend at the end of last year has encouraged leading economists to raise their forecasts for 2017. The latest Statistics Denmark figures, published Friday, took growth for 2016 overall…
MoreDanish companies used as cover for money laundering
More than 20 million US dollars from the money laundering scandal involving Danske Bank and Nordea was funneled through shell companies in Copenhagen registered to a Lithuanian front man. After Berlingske revealed last…
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