DPP: Integration policies ‘misguided and mistaken’
Integration in this country has ‘failed dramatically’, Danish People’s Party (DPP) leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl said yesterday in response to a new report showing non-western immigrants cost the Danish state DKK 33bn in…
MoreImmigrants ‘smothered in welfare’
Denmark has ‘smothered’ refugees and other immigrants with so much welfare that many are incapable of working, according to Integration Minister Inger Støjberg who in an interview with Berlingske pinpoints the ‘failed integration…
MoreAsylum seekers go underground
Nearly 2,000 failed asylum seekers have gone missing in Denmark. In an official response to parliament, Monday, the Integration Ministry reported that 1,960 people whose application for asylum has been rejected and are…
MoreNew poll: Majority for opposition as LA, DPP slip back
The centre-left opposition remains on course for victory at the next election. The latest Voxmeter poll shows the ‘red’ bloc parties would win 50.3% of the vote if an election was held today,…
MoreSKAT transfers billions to tax shelter
The Danish Tax Authority (SKAT) has transferred billions of kroner from the share dividend scandal to the island of Labuan in Malaysia, one of the world’s most secretive tax shelters. SKAT was allegedly…
MoreInflation up
The rate of inflation increased slightly in March. The latest figures from Statistics Denmark show the consumer price index rose 1.0 percent year-over-year in March, the same rate of increase as in February,…
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Danish projects accused of social dumping / Poultry ban lifted / EU signs off on Maersk takeover Social dumping: Danish-funded energy projects in the UK have been accused of social-dumping. British unions claim…
MoreStockholm: PM condemns ‘cowardly’ attack
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen called the Stockholm attack, Friday, a ‘cowardly attempt to intimidate us and our peaceful way of life in Scandinavia’. In a Ministry of State press release after a…
MorePolice monitor ‘suspicious vehicles’
Danish police have heightened their awareness of ‘suspicious vehicles’ following the Stockholm attack, Friday. After the Swedish police requested permission to restrict traffic on the Oresund Bridge linking Denmark and Sweden, the national Danish…
MoreGovernment ‘100%’ behind US attack on Syria
The government has offered unconditional support for the U.S. bombing raid on Syria. Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said it’s good to see an American president ‘back words with action’, while Foreign Minister…
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