Posted on 14. May, 2019 in: News

Election briefs – Day 7

Alternatives hit rock bottom / LA spokeswoman wants silicone breasts / Racist leader sends voters to pro-migrant party… The Alternatives are close to being kicked out of parliament. The latest Voxmeter poll shows…

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Posted on 14. May, 2019 in: News

‘Feminist’ Danish women appreciate male attention

Despite years of promoting gender equality Denmark has been ranked as one of the least feminist countries in the western world. A global study of more than 25,000 people by the YouGov-Cambridge Globalism…

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Posted on 14. May, 2019 in: News

Energy giant wins name battle

Partially state-owned wind giant Ørsted has won a legal battle over the use of its own name after a court battle with descendants of the Danish scientist who inspired its identity change from…

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Posted on 14. May, 2019 in: News

Business shorts

Slight dip in inflation / Vestas profit slowdown /  Danske Bank appoints new CEO…. Inflation fell to 1.0% year on year in April, down from 1.2% last month, slightly lower than expected (1.1%)….

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Posted on 13. May, 2019 in: News

Løkke plays ‘tax freeze’ card

Last week it was the ‘welfare card’ – this week it’s tax. The ruling Liberals have vowed to freeze all taxes and duties in a re-run of ex-party leader Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s 20012…

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Posted on 13. May, 2019 in: News

Analyst: Recycling 20-year-old tax policy won’t work

The Liberals’ tax freeze proposal is flashback to the start of the century and an exact copy of ex-PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s tactics but it’s unlikely to provide his successor with the comeback…

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Posted on 13. May, 2019 in: News

New poll signals good news for Løkke

After a long winter of depressing opinion polls there could be light at the end of the tunnel for Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and his allies on the right. The latest YouGov…

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Posted on 13. May, 2019 in: News

No support for ban on asylum seekers

The Danish People’s Party’s (DPP) call for a ban on asylum seekers has been dismissed by parties on both the right and left. Opposition leader Mette Frederiksen rejected the proposal out of hand, Friday,…

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Posted on 13. May, 2019 in: News

Mette Frederiksen’s recipe for victory – right on immigration, left on the economy

In her bid to re-win power opposition leader has made a dramatic right turn on immigration but turned the Social Democrats to the left economically – a policy that looks like making her…

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Posted on 13. May, 2019 in: News

Election Briefs:

Porn, swastikas, exclusion for fascist…but immigration isn’t a big issue… The Liberal Alliance’s Joachim B. Olsen has defended paying for an advert on porn website, Pornhub, in which he tells sex-surfers: “When you’ve…

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7:59 – All the Danish News That Fits

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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7:59: TODAS LAS NOTICIAS DANESAS DEL MOMENTO.
7:59-Noticias Danesas de Hoy es una nueva fuente de noticias en inglés dirigida especialmente al cuerpo diplomático, extranjeros viviendo en Dinamarca

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