Posted on 05. Feb, 2018 in: News

Record-high profit for Danske Bank

Denmark’s biggest bank, Danske, delivered its best full-year result ever on Friday. Net profit reached DKK 20.9bn ($3.5 billion), which was the high end of the bank’s target range for the year. Back…

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Posted on 05. Feb, 2018 in: News

Danish companies digital front runners

Danish companies are leading the way in digitilisation. A new Statistics Denmark report, based on a survey by Eurostat, shows 42 percent of Danish companies have a ‘high’ or ‘very high’ degree of…

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Posted on 04. Feb, 2018 in: TWTW

The Week That Was, January 27th – February 4th 2018      

Politics/Economy: During a two-hour parliamentary consultation about his links to fishing industry ‘quota kings’, Wednesday, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen defended his right to a ‘private life’ and questioned the hearing’s right to…

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Posted on 02. Feb, 2018 in: News

Russia’s ambassador blasts Denmark’s ‘surreal’ defence policy

Using the Russian threat to justify a massive increase in defence spending is ‘pure surrealism’, Russia’s ambassador to Denmark, Mikhail Valentinovich Vanin, said yesterday after a cross party majority agreed to spend an…

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Posted on 02. Feb, 2018 in: News

Legal experts question Løkke’s defence in favours for fish affair

Legal experts have denounced Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s evasive responses to a parliamentary consultation about the fishing quotas affair. During a two-hour grilling about his links to fishing industry ‘quota kings’, Wednesday,…

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Posted on 02. Feb, 2018 in: News

PM has mixed official duties with charitable work

Despite his denials Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has on a number of occasions mixed work for his charitable Løkke Foundation with official duties as prime minister. Following Wednesday’s ‘favours for fish’ parliamentary…

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Posted on 02. Feb, 2018 in: News

Israeli Embassy denouces biased reporting of Gaza situation

Israel’s deputy ambassador to Denmark, Eyal Lampert, has urged left-leaning daily Politiken to ‘check its facts’ when reporting on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. In response to a recent editorial critical of his…

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Posted on 02. Feb, 2018 in: News

Muslim school ordered to repay DKK16m in state funding

The controversial Iqra Muslim free school in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, has been ordered to reimburse the state DKK16.2m (€2.1m) in state subsides. Funding for 2018 has also been withheld. The National Board of Education…

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Posted on 02. Feb, 2018 in: News

Cyber theft up 60%

Danish consumers have embraced digital banking and swipe credit cards with no pin code but at a cost – the technological advances have coincided with a substantial increase in cyber theft. Bloomberg News…

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Posted on 02. Feb, 2018 in: News

Danish feta isn’t feta

Danish dairy firms stand accused of violating EU law by selling cheese marked as “feta”, reigniting an old dispute between Denmark and Greece. According to Euronews the European Commission has reportedly submitted a…

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7:59 – All the Danish News That Fits

7:59 – Danish News Today, is the most reliable source of daily Danish news in English for diplomats, the ex-pat community, the business sector, or anyone in Denmark or abroad seeking an insight into what’s happening in Denmark right now.

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7:59: TODAS LAS NOTICIAS DANESAS DEL MOMENTO.
7:59-Noticias Danesas de Hoy es una nueva fuente de noticias en inglés dirigida especialmente al cuerpo diplomático, extranjeros viviendo en Dinamarca

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