Pro-EU parties lead the way as election approaches
The Social Democrats and Liberals are way out in front in the countdown to the EU election in May. A new YouGov poll indicates the Social Democrats stand to win 22.5% of the…
MoreVestager slaps Mastercard with €570m fine
After punishing Google, Facebook, and Apple, Denmark’s aggressive EU Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, has now fined global credit card giant Mastercard €570m ($647m) for limiting competition between banks. “By preventing merchants from shopping…
MoreWatchdog: Finance sector could face fallout from money laundering scandal
Denmark’s reputation as a relatively corrupt-free country has taken a battering from the Danske Bank money laundering scandal, the Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) acknowledged in a risk assessment, Tuesday, warning that Danish financial firms…
MoreTerrorist on trial
A 31-year-old Syrian man charged with planning to explode one or more bombs in Copenhagen and stabbing random people with kitchen knives told Copenhagen District Court, Tuesday, he’d lived a ‘varied life’ before…
MoreBioscience firmed named ‘world’s most sustainable’
Denmark’s Chr. Hansen Holding tops this year’s Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable companies, which ranks large corporations across the globe on their performance reducing carbon and waste, their gender diversity among…
MoreForeign Minister calls for more sanctions against Russia
Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen has urged the EU to tighten sanctions on Russia for continuing to detain 24 Ukrainian sailors. At an EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels, Monday, ahead of his trip…
MorePolice to be given fake IDs to trace internet crime
A new government proposal would allow police agents the right to use fake IDs when tracking criminality on the internet. Justice Minister Søren Pape Poulsen said there have been ‘grotesque examples’ of child…
MoreLawyers concealed crucial information in share-dividend scam
Tax Minister Karsten Lauritzen claimed to be shocked yesterday by new documents showing the law firm commissioned by the government to investigate the DKK12.7bn share dividend scandal has concealed crucial information about its…
MoreNew Study: Poverty confined to immigrant groups
Poverty in Denmark is primarily confined to immigrants, a new study by the right-leaning think-tank CEPOS claims. The study questions recent reports that have highlighted the rise of poverty by concluding that both…
MoreParliament debates Huawei problem
Parliament will debate today as to whether Chinese telecom giant Huawei should be excluded from Denmark’s new 5G telecommunications infrastructure. Huawei is suspected of espionage on private and state actors in a number…
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