Posted on 29. Aug, 2019 in: News

Jensen accepts criticism

The Liberals’ deputy leader has praised the man who’s leading the insurgency in Jutland to remove Lars Løkke Rasmussen as party leader. Kristian Jensen characterised Jens Nicolai Vejlgaard, the chair of the Liberal…

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Posted on 29. Aug, 2019 in: News

Trump Baby ready to fly

President Trump may have cancelled his state visit to Denmark next week but he’ll be here in spirit – the ‘Trump Baby’ balloon, which became famous worldwide during the president’s  July 2018 visit…

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Posted on 29. Aug, 2019 in: News

Red/Greens exclude Muslim extremist

A controversial Muslim leader has been excluded from the Red/Greens for suggesting that women who commit adultery or seek a divorce should be stoned. The far-left party said Kasem Said Ahmad, a former…

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Posted on 29. Aug, 2019 in: News

Russia: Trump’s Greenland bid was ‘justified’

Moscow has remained silent about President Trump’s failed bid to buy Greenland, but according to a Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman the ‘offer was justified’, US Newsweek reports. “These are two sovereign states who…

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Posted on 29. Aug, 2019 in: News

Business shorts

Sydbank joins negative interest race / Copenhagen Airport 6th on friendliness index / Danish Crown sells off UK’s biggest pork producer…. A second Danish bank has targeted its richest depositors by imposing negative…

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Posted on 28. Aug, 2019 in: News

Liberal base turns against Løkke: ‘We need change’

The chair of the Liberal Party’s (V) Midtjylland regional board has urged leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen and his deputy, Kristian Jensen, to step down and clear the way for ‘new blood’. Following a…

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Posted on 28. Aug, 2019 in: News

Liberal MPs divided on leadership dispute

Support for Liberal leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen is also crumbling within the party’s own parliamentary group. Former justice spokesman Preben Bang Henriksen last night became the first MP to publicly back (policy spokesman)…

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Posted on 28. Aug, 2019 in: News

Defiant Løkke: I’m going nowhere

Liberal leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen has dismissed the ever-growing calls from the party base to step down. The former prime minister told TV2 he was confident the 850 delegates at the upcoming party…

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Posted on 28. Aug, 2019 in: News

Finance Minister: Strong economy could be threatened by global downturn, Brexit

The Danish economy is fundamentally robust but there are dark clouds on the horizon – that was the message from Finance Minister Nikolaj Wammen yesterday as he presented the government’s latest ‘state of…

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Posted on 28. Aug, 2019 in: News

Supreme Court upholds prison sentence for mercenary who fought ISIS

The Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s 6-month prison sentence against a Danish soldier of fortune who fought against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria. 41-year-old Tommy Mørck, who fought alongside the People’s…

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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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