Witness: Foreign Ministry ordered clampdown on Tibet demonstrators
It was the Foreign Ministry that ordered the police to ensure that former Chinese President Hu Jintao didn’t see any pro-Tibet demonstrations during his 2012 state visit, a former vice police commissioner claimed…
MoreAlleged assassin mixed with Iranian officials
The 39-year-old Norwegian-Iranian citizen who remains in custody in Denmark, charged with espionage and an attempted assassination, has on a number of occasions attended official occasions alongside high-ranking Iranian officials. Berlingske has obtained…
MoreFraud squad charges Dansk Bank
The State Prosecutor’s Office for Serious Economic and International Crime (Søik), popularly known as the fraud squad, has filed preliminary charges against Danske Bank for alleged violations of the anti-money laundering act at its…
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Ørsted announces $30bn green energy plan / Vestas wins offshore contract in U.S. Partially state-owned energy company Ørsted, formerly DONG, has announced plans to invest DKK200bn ($30 billion) into green energy between 2019…
MoreDefiant Løkke: No Danexit
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has warned he would never lead a government that considers leaving the EU. The Danish People’s Party (DPP), the Liberals’ potential coalition partner after next year’s general election,…
MorePM: Defence opt-out is off the table
Although Lars Løkke Rasmussen has paved the way for a public debate about Denmark’s EU defence opt-out it won’t be on the agenda when he gives a speech at the EU summit in…
MoreNew study projects major rise in non-western immigrants
The number of people from an ethnic minority in Denmark is expected to nearly double over the next 20 years – a new demographics study by Statistics Denmark projects 867,258 non-western immigrants by 2060,…
MoreSocial Democrats: Move criminal deportees to a deserted island
The number of failed asylum seekers and criminal foreigners housed at the Kærshovedgård departure centre has never been higher, despite the government’s vow to speed up deportations. New Immigration Ministry figures show the…
MoreProsperity has increased since financial crisis
Following Statistics Denmark’s readjusted GDP growth figures for 2015-16, a new study shows that prosperity in this country has increased markedly since the financial crisis. According to senior Nykredit economist Tore Stramer the…
MoreGovernment questions UN migration pact
The government will reevaluate a new UN pact to manage mass global migration, the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, before signing off on the agreement next month, Prime Minister Lars…
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