PM: Nerve gas attack recalls Cold War
Denmark stands fully behind Great Britain, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said yesterday after his UK counterpart, Therese May, concluded it was ‘highly likely’ that Russia tried to kill ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his…
MorePolitical outrage at nerve gas attack
Lawmakers from parliament’s three biggest parties have condemned the nerve gas attack in Great Britain and declared themselves ready to punish Russia. The Danish People’s Party’s (DPP) foreign affairs spokesman, Søren Espersen, said…
MoreFinance Minister: No winners in a trade war
Finance Minister Kristian Jensen has urged the EU to do everything it can to avoid a trade war with the USA. After an EU finance ministers’ meeting in Brussels, Tuesday, when US steel…
MoreGovernment targets welfare chisellers
The government is aiming to crack down hard on the unemployed who fail to attend meetings at the local job centre, stay away from state-funded work or training schemes, or travel abroad while…
MoreRed/Greens demand answers about deleted police e-mails
The Red/Greens have summoned Justice Minister Søren Pape Poulsen to appear before a parliamentary committee to explain why potentially incriminating e-mails were deleted from five top police chiefs’ computers before members of the…
MoreNordea: Lengthy strike could devastate economic growth
Nordea, Scandinavia’s biggest financial institution, has warned that a public sector strike could seriously damage economic growth. Local authorities have warned some 440,000 employees not to turn up for work on April 10…
MoreDanske Bank admits money laundering mistakes
Chairman of the Board at Danske Bank, Ole Andersen, has acknowledged the bank was too slow in reacting to financial law violations in Estonia. After massive media coverage of mysterious transactions at the…
MoreJobs growth for Danish companies abroad – but not in Denmark
Danish companies employ 1.4 million people in subsidiaries abroad, new Statistics Denmark figures show, and the numbers continue to rise. Kent Damsgaard, deputy director at DI (The Confederation of Danish Industries) said it’s…
MoreDeleted police e-mails obstructed Tibet Commission’s investigation
Potentially incriminating e-mails were deleted from top police chiefs’ computers before the Tibet Commission had the possibility to examine them. Police claimed their IT-system can only archive deleted e-mails for 30 days and when…
MoreMuslim free schools get more funding despite crackdown on parallel society
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has vowed to halt the ‘parallel society’ but at the same time has given more money to Muslim free schools. Just an hour before the PM presented the…
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