High Court affirms deportation for embassy attackers
Four Kurdish nationals who firebombed the Turkish embassy in Copenhagen last year were sentenced to prison with deportation to follow by the High Court, Wednesday. Judges upheld a Copenhagen District Court ruling by…
More67% of immigrants came from western countries
While the ever-present immigration debate constantly highlights the influx from countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia a new report, ‘Population Developments 2018’, shows that 67% of all newcomers to Denmark last…
MoreFraud squad raids bunker company
The State Prosecutor’s Office for Serious Economic and International Crime (SØIK), popularly known as the fraud squad, has raided the offices of Dan-Bunkering in Middelfart looking for possible violations of EU sanctions on…
MoreConsumer confidence dips as economy slows
Consumer confidence continues to fall, mirroring concern about the threat of an economic slowdown. The latest Statistics Denmark figures show the consumer confidence index fell to 1.7 in October, a near three-year low,…
MoreUS Ambassador ‘takes a bath’ on Bel Air home
U.S. ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands has sold her California mansion for a ‘knockdown’ price of $19.5 million, just over half of the original asking price of $37 million. The ambassador built the…
MoreFormer speaker’s visit to Taiwan upsets Chinese embassy
China’s embassy in Copenhagen has reacted strongly to former speaker of the house Pia Kjærsgaard’s visit to Taiwan last week. As the head of a parliamentary delegation the Danish People’s Party (DPP) founder…
More‘4th man’ charged in Turkey spy case
A fourth person has been charged with conducting espionage for Turkey in this country. Three Danish nationals with Turkish roots have already been charged with aiding a foreign intelligence service by ‘snitching’ on…
MoreFraud Squad: Lithuanian woman laundered DKK166m through Denmark
Millions of dollars from alleged criminal activities in Eastern Europe were ‘whitewashed’ through Danish companies and banks according to an indictment by the State Prosecutor’s Office for Serious Economic and International Crime (SØIK),…
MoreDenmark unsure about joining security zone in Syria
It’s too early to say whether Denmark would support a European peace-keeping force in northern Syria, Defence Minister Trine Bramsen said yesterday. At the same time she welcomed her German counterpart Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer’s…
MoreEx-minister quits LA
Former cabinet minister Simon Emil Ammitzbøll-Bille has quit the Liberal Alliance (LA) following pressure from party leadership who accused him of ‘disloyalty’. After three years in government LA was decimated at the June election,…
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