Posted on 14. Mar, 2018 in: News

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…

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Posted on 14. Mar, 2018 in: News

Political 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…

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Posted on 14. Mar, 2018 in: News

Finance 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…

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Government 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…

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Red/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…

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Posted on 14. Mar, 2018 in: News

Nordea: 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…

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Posted on 14. Mar, 2018 in: News

Danske 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…

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Posted on 14. Mar, 2018 in: News

Jobs 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…

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Posted on 13. Mar, 2018 in: News

Deleted 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…

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Posted on 13. Mar, 2018 in: News

Muslim 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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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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