Government struggling to cut car duties
The government is facing defeat on its proposal to replace car registration duties of up to 180% by a flat rate 100% tax. Danish People’s Party (DPP) leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl said yesterday…
MoreGovernment moves to deport terrorist
The government is trying to convince Morocco to accept convicted terrorist Said Mansour who’s been stripped of his Danish passport. After having his Danish passport revoked by the High Court in 2016, the 56-year…
MoreUniversity to build world’s first quantum computer
Copenhagen University (KU) has signed an agreement with Microsoft to develop the world’s first quantum computer. The U.S. IT giant will invest more than DKK100m in the project, which according to the university…
MoreNordea plumps for Helsinki over Copenhagen
Nordea, the Nordic region’s biggest bank, will move its headquarters to Helsinki. The Danish government had been keen to get Nordea to shift its headquarters to Copenhagen but Nordea said the move to…
MoreNearly 300,000 infected eggs sold in supermarkets
288,000 insecticide-tainted Belgian eggs were sold by three Danish supermarkets in May and June, the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration said yesterday. The agency stressed that the small amount of fipronil found in…
MoreMoney laundering scandal hits the headlines throughout Europe
The Danske Bank money laundering scandal, in which it’s alleged the Azerbaijan regime funneled millions through Denmark’s biggest bank as part of an international lobbying operation orchestrated by the country’s president, Ilham Aliyev,…
MoreBusiness Minister: Danske Bank ‘extremely negligent’
Danske Bank is guilty of ‘extreme negligence’, Business Minister Brian Mikkelsen said yesterday in response to the latest money-laundering revelations. The minister said the bank, ‘and the bank only’, is ‘completely responsible’ for…
MoreInventor denies murdering journalist
Inventor Peter Madsen told Copenhagen District Court yesterday court that he disposed of the body of journalist Kim Wall in a state of ‘suicidal psychosis’ after a heavy hatch in his home-built submarine UC3 Nautilus dropped…
MoreDPP accuses charity of people smuggling
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) is pushing to ban the Save the Children organisation from collecting money for a rescue ship in the Mediterranean that’s been accused of helping to smuggle migrants to…
MoreNew feminist party vows to fight for men’s rights too
Denmark has a new political party – the Feminist Initiative, formed to “push through feminist politics for a world free from discrimination” and to undermine “gendered power structures”. The party was founded on…
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