Banks post multi-billion profits
Danish banks, mortgage lenders, and other financial institutions earned a collective DKK 33.8bn (€4.5bn) after tax last year, nearly 40% up on 2015. A new report, ‘Market Developments 2016’, by the Financial Services…
MoreLocal elections in six months’ time – really?
Nearly half of the electorate are unaware that local elections are being held in November for Denmark’s 98 municipality councils and five regional councils. A new Momentum poll for Local Government Denmark (Kommunernes Landsforening) reveals that…
MoreDenmark freezes aid funding to Palestinian organisations
Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen has frozen DKK50m in Danish aid funding for 24 Palestinian and pro-Palestinian NGOs, including the Women’s Affairs Technical Committee (WATC), which failed to reveal it named a women’s centre…
MoreDenmark joins Germany, Belgium in wind-power deal
Denmark, alongside Germany and Belgium, has backed a pledge to install 60 gigawatts of new offshore wind power over the next decade, more than five times the world’s existing capacity. Energy ministers from the three countries joined…
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Lundbeck signs Alzheimer deal / Novo gets millions for anti-cancer antibody / Vestas wins new Argentina order Lundbeck: Danish international pharmaceutical company H. Lundbeck has entered into an agreement with Israeli biotech company…
MoreTerror: ‘We will fight fire with fire’ says Samuelsen
Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen vowed Denmark would fight ‘fire with fire’ and win the war on terrorism after the latest atrocity in London, Friday evening. He said the time for reasoned dialogue with…
MoreBlasphemy law repealed
Denmark joined most European countries, Friday, when parliament repealed the 334-year-old blasphemy law that forbids public insults of a religion, such as the burning of holy books. Denmark was one of very few…
MorePM chastises Trump
The Paris agreement will live on, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said yesterday after Donald Trump pulled the U.S. from the climate accord agreed last December. At a Constitution Day speech in Skanderborg…
MoreConstitution Day – who said what
Political parties used Constitution Day, Monday, to tout a wide range of issues, ranging from new parliamentary rules to justice and fake news. The Conservatives: Party leader, and justice minister, Søren Pape Poulsen…
MoreGovernment puts final touches to EMA application
The government is busy is busy putting together its application to become the new host of the European Medical Agency (EMA), currently based in London but likely to relocate when the UK leaves…
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