Posted on 12. Feb, 2019 in: News

Beat It: Michael Jackson waxwork kicked out of shopping mall

Rødovre Centre west of Copenhagen, Denmark’s oldest shopping mall, has removed a wax statue of Michael Jackson following complaints from customers. Mall management feared the wax effigy could offend and be vandalised because…

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Posted on 12. Feb, 2019 in: News

Women form majority in science and technology

Denmark is one of only five EU countries that employs a majority of women in science and technology, according to gender-based data published by Eurostat, Monday Lithuania leads the way with 57 per…

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Posted on 12. Feb, 2019 in: News

Danske facing new legal battle

Another top law firm is preparing to launch a lawsuit against Danske Bank in connection with the money laundering scandal. DRRT, which is currently involved in the €9bn shareholder litigation against Volkswagen over…

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Posted on 12. Feb, 2019 in: News

Inflation on the rise

Danish inflation increased to a 14-month high last month after little movement in 2017, Statistics Denmark said Monday. The consumer price index jumped to 1.3 percent in January from a year earlier, up…

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Global warming opens up new export market for Greenland

Global warming could have a positive spin off for Greenland where the ice sheet is melting at a faster rate than previously thought, reshaping the world’s largest island by washing large amounts of…

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Posted on 12. Feb, 2019 in: News

Business shorts

Copenhagen Airport in top-10 globally / Industrial production up / Green energy company sells wind farms to Germany… Copenhagen is ranked the world’s seventh-best airport by travel magazine Wunderlust, which reports: ‘Copenhagen’s International airport reflects…

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Posted on 11. Feb, 2019 in: News

Socialists will resist Frederiksen’s dream of a one-party government

The Socialist People’s Party (SPP) will try and block opposition leader Mette Frederiksen’s plan to form a one-party government if she’s successful at this year’s election. The Social Democrat leader has said a…

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Posted on 11. Feb, 2019 in: News

Election 2019: DPP facing 11-seat loss

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) is heading for a disastrous election with a potential 11-seat loss. The latest Gallup poll for Berlingske shows parliament’s second-biggest party would win no more than 15% of…

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Posted on 11. Feb, 2019 in: News

Iraq War: Fogh reduced Foreign Policy Committee to ‘political theatre’

A review of the documentation presented in the report into Denmark’s war engagement in Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan indicates that former prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and ex-foreign minister Per Stig Møller wilfully…

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Posted on 11. Feb, 2019 in: News

Vestager urges Denmark to accept EU digital tax

Danish EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has expressed disappointment over Denmark’s unwillingness to support a European digital tax. The commission laid out its digital tax proposal almost a year ago, arguing it would promote…

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