Election 2019 – opposition heading for victory but no parliamentary majority
The opposition remains on course for victory in the general election that will be held before June 2019. Megafon’s final poll of 2018 shows 49.4% of the electorate would vote for a ‘red…
MoreDPP: Jail missing asylum seekers
Failed asylum seekers and criminal refugees who go missing from the Kærshovedgård transit centre should be arrested and jailed – the latest proposal from the Danish People’s Party (DPP) following new figures showing…
MoreTop footballer survives Christmas Day shooting
A Danish international footballer was at the centre of a murder attempt on Christmas Day. Lyngby BK striker Nicki Bille, who previously played in Spain for Villareal, Rayo Vallecano and Elche, was reportedly…
MoreBusiness shorts
APM opens chemical depot in India / Japanese giant buys Denmark’s biggest IT company / Russian order for Vestas APM Terminals, a unit of Danish transport giant AP Moller Maersk, is to open…
MoreFund paid DKK50,000 for meeting with PM
An unemployment insurance fund has claimed it donated DKK50,000 to Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s charitable ‘Løkke Foundation’ in return for a face to face meeting with the prime minister. Berlingske reported before Christmas how…
MoreU.S. tourists love Copenhagen
American tourists are heading for Copenhagen in big numbers. The latest Statistics Denmark figures, covering the first ten months of this year, show Americans were the biggest group of visitors, with 600,000 overnight…
MoreSyrian charged with planning a terrorist attack in Copenhagen
Ahead of the Christmas break a 31-year-old Syrian national was charged with planning a terrorist attack in Copenhagen in November 2016. The Public Prosecutor said the man had been arrested in possesion of…
MoreSKAT sues Canadian pension fund
The Tax Department (SKAT) launched a legal action against Canada’s Health Care of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), Friday, regarding its alleged role in the share dividend scandal that cost Denmark a reported DKK12.3bn (nearly $2bn)….
MoreConsumer confidence dips but retail sales up
Denmark’s consumer confidence index fell to 2.9 points in December from 4.3 points in November, the lowest reading for two years. The latest Statistics Denmark figures, released before Christmas, also showed the retail…
MoreGovernment gets funding for refugee island
A narrow majority has approved funding for the government’s ‘refugee island’ project. Although the Social Democrats have supported the proposal they abstained from voting and the legislation was passed by the government and…
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