Denmark ranks low on long-term unemployment
Denmark has one of the lowest long-term unemployment rates in the EU. During the final quarter (Q4) of 2016, just under 24% of all jobless had been without work for more than a…
MoreYoung girl denies making bomb threats
The 17-year-old Danish girl charged with planning bomb attacks against two schools claimed they were only ‘empty threats’ on the first day of her trial at Holbaek District Court, Wednesday. Police arrested the…
MoreCourt upholds deportation order against Korean woman
Aalborg District Court yesterday upheld the extradition order of Chung Yoo-ra, the 21-year-old daughter of Choi Soon-sil, the woman at the centre of the massive corruption scandal that led to former President Park…
MoreBusiness shorts
Maersk close to Iran deal/ Pandora shares take a dive/ Government help for electric cars Maersk Oil is rumoured to be close to signing a deal to develop the South Pars Oil Layer…
MoreA bridge too far
Copenhagen is fiercely proud of its status as the world’s no.1 cycling city but the latest addition to the cycle path network – the much delayed Inner Harbour Bridge, that opened last year…
MoreMinister: Poverty report ‘useless’
Welfare recipients aren’t poor – at least according to Minister for Economic Affairs and the Interior Simon Emil Ammitzbøll who yesterday dismissed a new report by the Economic Council of the Labour Movement (AE) as ‘out…
MorePoverty: Left-wing parties were also guilty
Left-wing parties need to accept some responsibility for the increase in poverty instead of trying to shift the blame onto the government, the Red/Greens’ titular leader Pernille Skipper said yesterday after a new…
MorePM: British election will help Brexit negotiations
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen praised his British counterpart Therese May’s ‘political opportunism’ yesterday after she surprisingly called a snap June 8th election. He said an election now, instead of 2020 as scheduled,…
MoreLøkke in Brexit strategy talks with Holland, Ireland
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen will meet with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny in The Hague, Friday, to discuss Britain’s exit from the European Union, an indication…
MoreDenmark to challenge post-Brexit fishing rights
The government has warned it will challenge British plans to ‘take back control’ of its waters after leaving the EU. According to Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen Danish fishermen have a historical right to…
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