Posted on 07. Jun, 2017 in: News

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…

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Posted on 07. Jun, 2017 in: News

Local 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…

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Posted on 07. Jun, 2017 in: News

Denmark 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…

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Posted on 07. Jun, 2017 in: News

Denmark 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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Posted on 07. Jun, 2017 in: News

Business shorts

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…

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Posted on 06. Jun, 2017 in: News

Terror: ‘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…

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Posted on 06. Jun, 2017 in: News

Blasphemy law repealed

Denmark joined most European countries, Friday, when parliament repealed the 334-year-old blasphemy law that forbids public insults of a religion, such as the burning of holy books.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…

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Posted on 06. Jun, 2017 in: News

PM 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…

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Posted on 06. Jun, 2017 in: News

Constitution 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…

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Posted on 06. Jun, 2017 in: News

Government 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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7:59 – All the Danish News That Fits

7:59 – Danish News Today, is the most reliable source of daily Danish news in English for diplomats, the ex-pat community, the business sector, or anyone in Denmark or abroad seeking an insight into what’s happening in Denmark right now.

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7:59: TODAS LAS NOTICIAS DANESAS DEL MOMENTO.
7:59-Noticias Danesas de Hoy es una nueva fuente de noticias en inglés dirigida especialmente al cuerpo diplomático, extranjeros viviendo en Dinamarca

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