Posted on 30. Oct, 2019 in: News

Muslim jailed for death threats to Queen, Paludan

A Muslim resident has been jailed for threatening to kill the Queen. The 33-year-old man, who was reported to police by his wife who feared his heavy use of cannabis had made him…

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Posted on 30. Oct, 2019 in: News

Clean energy giant plans cutbacks

Partially state-owned Ørsted, one of the major successes of Denmark’s green economy, is taking measures to reduce its annual overheads by DKK500-600m annually between 2020 and 2022. Around half of the planned saving…

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Posted on 30. Oct, 2019 in: News

Lego aims to attract skilled foreign workers with new ‘campus’

Lego has formally opened the first phase of its new, state of the art headquarters in Billund The global toy giant’s new, 54,000-square metre ‘campus’ will host 2,000 employees when completed in 2021…

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Posted on 30. Oct, 2019 in: News

Restaurant industry ‘heading for disaster’

It’s boom time for the restaurant industry in this country but there are black clouds on the horizon. Hundreds of new restaurants have opened over the past few years, leading to a record…

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Posted on 29. Oct, 2019 in: News

120% rise in hate crime reports

The Danish police received reports of 449 hate crimes last year but believe many more went unreported. The majority of cases involved race or religion, including a Jewish woman who had a swastika…

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Posted on 29. Oct, 2019 in: News

PM in Sweden for border control talks

Border control will be high on the agenda when Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen travels to Stockholm today for talks with her Swedish counterpart Stefan Löfven. After decades of an open border agreement, Sweden…

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Posted on 29. Oct, 2019 in: News

PM welcomes ‘flextension’

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen welcomed the EU’s decision yesterday to grant a 3-month ‘flextension’ to the UK in the long-running Brexit saga. The PM said the Danish position has always been to support…

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Posted on 29. Oct, 2019 in: News

400% rise in $$$ millionaires

Over the past decade the number of Danes who, on paper, have become dollar millionaires, has risen by nearly 400%, from 52,000 to 237,000, the Global Wealth Report 2019 by Swiss bank Credit…

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Posted on 29. Oct, 2019 in: News

Retail sales remain slow despite upbeat economy

Despite low interest rates, the high rate of employment, and an overall increase in real wages, retail sales remain generally stagnant. The latest Statistics Denmark figures show retail sales edged up 0.1 percent…

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Posted on 29. Oct, 2019 in: News

International criticism as Danish cheese joins champagne and feta

Cheese producers in Denmark are celebrating after the EU granted the internationally popular Havarti cheese ‘protected geographical indication (GI)’ a status granted to products that have a specific link to the place where…

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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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