Man charged with police murder
A 26-year-old deranged man who shot a policeman in the head outside Albertslund police station was charged with murder, Tuesday. Senior prosecutor Lise-Lotte Nilas said Tuesday that the man, who bears a ‘hatred…
MoreRetail sales flatline
Retail sales disappointed in May after showing encouraging signs in the previous four months. The latest figures from Statistics Denmark show a slight 0.1% increase, far less than expected, following a 0.2 percent…
MoreBusiness shorts
H.C. Andersen theme park in China / Vestager hits Goggle with €2.4bn fine / Coal plant goes green H.C. Andersen: A theme park dedicated to Danish fairy tales writer, Hans Christian Andersen, has finally…
MoreDPP to launch child bride bill
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) will put forward a bill before the summer recess outlawing marriages involving a minor. Although Integration Minister Inger Støjberg is still being dogged by the child bride controversy,…
MoreLA paying for government’s failures
The Liberal Alliance (LA), continues to lose support. A new Norstat poll shows the coaltion party would win less than 5% of the vote and only eight seats if an election was held…
MoreNew poll indicates left wing majority at City Hall
The far-left Red/Green Alliance and Social Democrats are neck and neck in the race to win power at Copenhagen City Hall. A new Gallup poll for Berlingske ahead of November’s local government elections…
MoreDenmark’s negative image scares off eggheads
Danish companies desperate to attract much-needed skilled foreign manpower to fill the labour gap are struggling with a negative image of Denmark in foreign media. Although Denmark was ranked the best place on…
MoreIMF highlights need for lower taxes
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged the government to lower taxes as part of its upcoming labour market reform programme. But at the same time the IMF noted ‘increasing resistance’ to such…
MoreDenmark and Sweden join forces on ‘HH link’
The Danish and Swedish authorities have put together a joint working group that will over the next three years examine the viability of an underwater tunnel between Helsingør in Denmark and Helsingborg in…
MoreVestager to hit Google with record fine
Denmark’s EU Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, is set to slap Google with the biggest fine in EU history today. US media reports the EU could hand down a $1.2 billion fine to the…
More