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Carlsberg earnings up after change to craft beer / Orsted CEO has Brexit concerns /Pension giant invests DKK 500m in life science….. Shares in Carlsberg surged to a 10-year high, Thursday, after the…
MoreDPP cuts attachment to Liberals
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) will no longer give the Liberals their unconditional support. At the populist party’s annual summer conference, Wednesday, leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl said the DPP has faithfully backed the…
MoreDeputy leader challenges Løkke’s policy
The Liberals’ deputy leader, Kristian Jensen, has dismissed the possibility of an across the centre coalition alongside the Social Democrats (SD) after the next election, as proposed by party leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen…
MoreJensen’s ‘declaration of war’
By publicly challenging Liberal leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s policies Kristian Jensen has issued a declaration of war, Berlingske’s political analyst Jarl Cordua said yesterday after the deputy leader dismissed the possibility of a…
MorePolice confident of arrests in tax bombing
Copenhagen Police characterised the explosion that ripped through the Danish Tax Agency in Østerbro, late Tuesday, as a ‘deliberate act’. At a press conference Chief Police Inspector Jørgen Bergen Skov said he’s ‘extremely…
MoreDrop in production mirrors European slowdown
Industrial production declined for the first time in four months in June. The latest Statistics Denmark figures show production dropped 6.8 percent month-on-month in June, after an upwardly revised 4.2 percent rise in…
MoreNovo expands in US
Novo Nordisk, the world’s largest maker of diabetes treatments, has purchased a factory in North Carolina to help fulfill the fast-growing demand for once-daily pill for treating type 2 diabetes, semaglutide. The tablet…
MoreBomb rocks tax agency
An explosion rocked the Danish Tax Agency in Østerbro, Copenhagen late last night. According to initial police reports the building’s windows were blown out and the façade was badly damaged but nobody was injured….
MoreStøjberg vows to fight on
Former immigration minister Inger Støjberg has vowed to ‘fight on’ after being excluded from the Liberals’ leadership group, Monday. In a Facebook message after MPs rejected her and chose former innovation minister Sophie…
MoreLiberals’ base divided on successor to Løkke – would prefer him to stay
Local Liberal constituency chairpersons are less than enthusiastic about the prospect of Kristian Jensen becoming party leader. In a TV2 survey, only 6 out of 42 said they see the former finance minister…
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