Denmark loses DKK 5bn to tax shelters
The Danish state is losing around DKK 5bn (€660m) in revenue every year from money moved to offshore tax havens, a new yet to be published report by Copenhagen University, in conjunction with…
MoreIntegration Minister flees from deportation centre
Inger Støjberg’s car hit a refugee woman on Friday when the integration minister was forced to flee from a deportation center for rejected asylum seekers. The woman was amongst a group of refugees…
MoreParadise papers reveal Danish link to new Trump-Russia collusion
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has business links with close allies of President Vladimir Putin who earn millions transporting oil and gas through the Sound Strait (Øresund) between Denmark and Sweden. The Paradise Papers,…
More140 Danish names in tax-leak papers
140 Danish names figure prominently in the new tax leaks revealed by the Paradise Papers. DR News reports that a Danish firm of lawyers advised a customer to move money from Bermuda to…
MoreLocal politicians renege on campaign promises
Voters believe local politicians have generally failed to live up to the generous campaign promises they made at the municipal elections four years ago. A new survey shows fewer than one in three…
MoreNo Danish aid money in fraud scandal
Danish aid money was not part of the $6m earmarked to fight the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa, but which was defrauded by local officials according to a new report by the…
MoreDI: We need fewer academics, more tradesmen
The business sector has called for a cap on academic education following new figures showing 43% of today’s crop of 18-year-olds will have attended university by the time they are 40 years of…
MoreThe Week That Was, October 30th – November 5th 2017
Politics/Economy The Auditor General warned of ‘serious gaps’ in the decision-making process behind Denmark’s planned purchase of 27 new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) jets, but Defence Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen dismissed claims…
MoreDevelopment Aid Minister: Rohingya atrocities could be ethnic cleansing
Development Aid Minister Ulla Tørnæs is uncertain as to whether the violence against 800.000 Rohingya refugees in Mynamar can be termed ethnic cleansing. Following a visit to a Bangladeshi refugee camp and talks…
MoreGovernment to challenge human rights convention
The government is determined to test the validity of the human rights convention when Denmark assumes the presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers in two weeks’ time. Ahead of a visit by Secretary…
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