Pusher Street flourishing
The cannabis market in Christiania is flourishing again less than a year after residents of the ‘free state’ tore down stalls and harassed dealers following the shooting of a police officer. A year…
MoreThe Week That Was, August 21st – August 27th 2017
Politics/Economy Leaked documents obtained by Politiken show the government’s proposals for across the board tax cuts will give high earners more money than its failed move to lower the punitive top rate of…
MoreRussian threat is very real says PM
The threat from the east is ‘genuine and increasing’, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said in press release, Thursday, distancing himself from Denmark’s ambassador in Moscow, Thomas Winkler, who in an interview with…
MoreGovernment still trying to cut taxes for high earners
The government’s proposals for wide-ranging tax cuts will give high earners more money than lowering the punitive top rate of income tax. The Lib/Con/LA coalition suffered an embarrassing defeat last week when, under…
MoreTax break for ‘small’ stock-market investors
As part of its new budget plan the government is hoping to encourage ‘the average wage earner’ to take a dip in the stock market by reducing the tax on share investments. Business…
MoreGovernment rejects DPP proposal to put asylum seekers on remote islands
The government won’t be relocating asylum seekers to remote, uninhabited Danish islands as suggested by the Danish People’s Party (DPP). There are hundreds of islands dotted around Denmark which, according to the DPP’s…
MoreNew book: Løkke agreed weak climate deal with Obama
Despite Denmark’s lofty ambitions ahead of COP15 the 2009 climate conference in Copenhagen ended in no more than a vague commitment to preventing the average global temperature from rising by more than 2…
MoreProsecutor ups charges against inventor in submarine death
Inventor Peter Madsen is to face charges of murder and ‘indecent interference with a human corpse’, Police Prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen said yesterday after DNA tests confirmed the headless torso washed ashore off the coast…
MoreIntimidated traffic wardens pull out of Nørrebro
Traffic wardens are refusing to patrol the streets of Nørrebro following threats from gang members. A spokesman for Copenhagen City Hall said the situation has deteriorated by so much that parking controls in…
MoreGovernment aims to ease tax burden by DKK22bn
The government is preparing to present a raft of measures next week that will ease the overall tax burden by around DKK22bn ($3.1bn) and provide 3 million people with more disposable income. Confidential…
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