Danes getting fatter
People in this country may be getting fatter but Denmark is still relatively low in the OECD’s (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) Obesity Update 2017. The heaviest counties include the United States…
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Roma people have ‘hi-jacked’ the inner city of Copenhagen and should be forced to leave, according to Speaker of the House Pia Kjærsgaard. In a provocative op-ed article in Berlingske the former Danish…
MoreMore refugees find work
3,316 refugees found work in this country last year, around 15% of all new arrivals and twice as many as in 2015, a new study by The Confederation of Danish Employers (DA) shows….
MorePositive retail sales
Retail sales increased for the fourth straight month in April. The latest Statistics Denmark figures, released Monday, show retail sales climbed 0.3 percent month-over-month in April, following a 0.1 percent slight rise in…
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World’s biggest windfarm powered by Danish turbines / Vestager probes US-Danish energy deal Windfarm: The world’s biggest windfarm, powered by 32 giant Vestas wind turbines and co-owned by Dong Energy, is now supplying…
MoreDPP calls for border fence
The Danish People’s Party has called for a barbed-wire fence along Denmark’s border with Germany and ‘transit zones’ where asylum seekers can be detained while their applications are being processed. The party has…
MoreLøkke backs down on retirement proposal
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has been forced to drop his plan to raise the retirement age after the Danish People’s Party (DPP) and Social Democrats (S) warned they would join forces again…
MoreDPP and Social Democrats back government despite ‘flirt’
Despite the growing alliance between the Danish People’s Party (DPP) and Social Democrats (S) a review of voting records show both parties are more allied with the government than each other. During the…
MoreNew poll confirms opposition’s lead
Opposition leader Mette Frederiksen would be prime minister if an election was held today. A new Voxmeter poll for Ritzau gives the centre-left alliance a slight 89-86 seat majority over the government coalition…
MoreMinister knew child-bride policy could be illegal
Integration Minister Inger Støjberg was aware the government could be in violation of Danish law and Denmark’s human rights obligations when she banned child brides from living with their spouse at refugee centres…
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