10 refugee kids cost local council $100,000 per month
10 unaccompanied refugee kids are costing taxpayers in the municipality of Frederiksberg a collective DKK670,000 ($100,000) per month. Tabloid daily Ekstra Bladet reported Tuesday how the local council pays Integrationsnet, part of the Danish…
MoreLiberals: Jobless youths can wash road signs
The jobless should be put to work washing road signs, at least according to the ruling Liberals’ traffic spokesman Kristian Pihl Lorentzen. In a readers’ letter to the local Holstebro-Struer newspaper, Mr Lorentzen…
MoreBeggars convicted but avoid prison
Three more foreign nationals were found guilty of begging at Copenhagen City Court yesterday, ‘in absentia’, bringing the total to four since the new public disorder law came into power last month. The…
MoreDanes like internet shopping
Danes have become eager internet shoppers. The 2017 edition of the EU Commission’s Consumer Conditions Scoreboard shows Danish consumers spent an average of DKK89 every month last year on internet purchases, second only to…
MoreWorst weather since 1979
The current spate of poor July weather is the worst for 38 years. So far there hasn’t been one summer day this month and if the trend continues until August 1st it will…
MoreDanish banks meet financial liability requirments
Leading credit ratings agency Moody’s believes Danish banks’ existing capital will be sufficient to cover most of the loss-absorbing debt targets set out under Denmark’s Minimum Requirement for Own Funds and Eligible Liabilities…
MoreFines for ‘re-education parents’?
An overwhelming majority of voters believe immigrant parents who send their children home on ‘re-education trips’ should suffer financially. An increasing number of ethnic minority kids brought up in Denmark have asked the…
MoreSocial legacy passed down from grandparents
New data suggests that social legacy is handed down through three generations. A new study by the Economic Council of the Labour Movement (AE) reveals how a grandparent’s educational level plays a significant…
MoreNew party calls for spot checks of foreign vehicles
The anti-immigrant New Conservatives (Nye Borgerlige) want to extend border control to include checks on all cars leaving Denmark. In an interview with the Jyske Vestkysten newspaper, Monday, party leader Pernille Vermund said…
MoreHeating stoves more dangerous than traffic
Old-fashioned wood-fired stoves and ovens are the cause of more pollution in this country than all vehicles combined. A new study by the Centre for the Environment and Energy shows that an estimated…
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