New bill targets Muslim free schools
Parliament’s two biggest parties have joined forces on a new bill that could lead to the closure of Muslim free schools. The Social Democrats, with the backing of the Danish People’s Party (DPP),…
MorePolice enforce stop and search zones in capital
Copenhagen Police have implemented stop and search zones in some of the capital’s most crime-ridden districts following a sharp increase in organised crime. The zones, in Nørrebro, Husum and Tingbjerg, will last 14…
MoreNordea postpones Copenhagen relocation decision
Nordea has postponed a decision about relocating its headquarters to Copenhagen until after summer. Scandinavia’s biggest bank has threatened to move its main offices from Stockholm in protest at the Swedish government’s threat…
MoreAirbnb dispute splits City Hall
Copenhagen City Hall Labour Administrator Anna Mee Allerslev (Soc. Lib) has criticised Mayor Frank Jensen and Technical and Environmental Affairs Administrator Morten Kabell for their move to rein in the growing Airbnb industry….
MorePeople accept sky-high rents
Unless people are prepared to complain about sky-high rents they will continue to rise. That’s the message from the National Tenants Organisation (LLO) following a report showing the number of complaints filed to…
MoreMulti-million losses for mail service
Struggling national mail carrier PostNord doubled its losses during Q1, to DKK600m, as revenue continued to fall at an alarming rate. “The bottom line is still heavily influenced by increased digitalisation throughout the…
MoreConsumer confidence hits 2-year high
Consumer confidence is at its highest level for two years. The latest Statistics Denmark show the consumer consumer confidence index climbed to 10.5 in July from 7.1 in June, the highest since May…
MoreTurkey demands extradition of suspected terrorist
Turkey has demanded the extradition of a Danish terror suspect who allegedly supplied weapons to the killer in the Istanbul New Year nightclub atrocity. The 42-year-old man from Vejle, named in Turkish media…
MoreDPP’s tagging proposal ‘unconstitutional’
Experts have dismissed the Danish People’s Party’s (DPP) ‘draconian proposal’ to fit suspicious Islamists with electronic tagging, without a court order. Leading civil rights lawyer Bjørn Elmquist dismissed the proposal as a ‘piece…
MoreThink-tank: Lower corporate tax now
Right-leaning think-tank CEPOS has urged the government to lower the corporate tax rate to keep Denmark in the race to attract international investment. President Donald Trump is hoping to shave 20 percentage points…
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