Posted on 30. Sep, 2019 in: News

Government grants emergency aid package to fight child abuse in Greenland

The government has approved a DKK5.3m ($730,000) emergency aid package to combat child abuse in Greenland. Following a disturbing TV documentary, The Town Where Kids Disappear, a team of Danish psychologists will this…

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Posted on 30. Sep, 2019 in: News

Conservative leader urges opposition parties to come together

Conservative leader Søren Pape Poulsen believes new Liberal leader Jacob Ellemann-Jensen is the right man to lead the centre-right opposition back to power. At the Conservatives’ annual conference over the weekend the popular…

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Posted on 30. Sep, 2019 in: News

Vestager threatens to impose unilateral EU digital tax

Denmark’s EU Commission vice-president Margrethe Vestager has warned the EU will act unilaterally if the OECD fails to reach a global agreement on how to tax tech companies within fifteen months – before…

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Posted on 30. Sep, 2019 in: News

Wife confirms wanted terrorist’s death

Denmark’s most-wanted man, terrorist Basil Hassan who attempted to assassinate Danish author and critic of Islam Lars Hedegaard in Copenhagen on February 5, 2013, is definitely dead according to his Dutch wife. Hassan, named by…

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Posted on 30. Sep, 2019 in: News

Foreign Minister discusses pipeline, sovereignty with Ukraine counterpart

Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod discussed the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with his Ukrainian counterpart Vadym Prystaiko on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly last week. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said…

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Posted on 30. Sep, 2019 in: News

Queen Margrethe: I reign until I die

Queen Margrethe is planning to reign until she passes away and will only abdicate in favour of Crown Prince Frederik if she suffers a life threatening illness, the popular monarch said in an…

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Posted on 30. Sep, 2019 in: News

Estonia death leads to more problems for Danske Bank

The death of the former boss of Danske Bank in Estonia, Aivar Rehe, has inflamed the money laundering scandal. Estonia’s Minister of the Interior Mart Helme has called for a full investigation into…

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Posted on 30. Sep, 2019 in: News

Business shorts

Denmark retains 4th spot on global competitiveness survey /  Vestas fires 590 / Danish Chamber of Commerce welcomes mail crackdown on China… Denmark is ranked 4th on the IMD World Digital Competitiveness Report 2019, an annual study…

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Posted on 29. Sep, 2019 in: TWTW

The Week That Was, September 23rd – 29th 2019:

Politics/Economy: In a speech to world leaders at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen vowed that Denmark will lead the way in the fight to resist climate…

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Posted on 27. Sep, 2019 in: News

Parliament calls for probe into tax authority’s ‘sweet deal’ for share dividend scammers

Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (Folketingets Statsrevisorer) has asked the National Audit Office (Rigsrevisionen) to investigate why the tax authorities cut a ‘sweet deal’ with American speculators who scammed the Danish state out of billions…

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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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