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Vestas tops global turbine market….Crown Prince rushed back to Denmark….Foreign Ministry launches green investment strategy…. Danish green energy giant Vestas continues to lead the global onshore and overall wind turbine market. A new…
MoreGovernment employs strong arm tactics to silence critics
Social Democrat leadership has on a number of occasions attempted to coerce critics of the party’s, or government’s, policies. Berlingske reports four different incidents in which the ruling party, both before and after…
MoreGerman support for Denmark’s EU budget proposal
Germany’s finance minister, Olaf Scholz, has backed Denmark’s bid to cap the EU’s long-term budget. Denmark has joined Austria, the Netherlands, and Sweden in a ‘Gang of Four’ unwilling to pay more than…
MoreHomeless harassment leads to call for change in law
More than 500 fines have been handed down to homeless people over the past three years for setting up ‘intimidating camps’ in public places, leading to demands from the government’s allies for a…
MoreVestager goes face to face with Facebook founder
Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg was given a frosty reception by Denmark’s European Competition and Digital Commissioner Margrethe Vestager and other high-ranking EU officials in Brussels. Monday. The Facebook founder’s ‘fence-mending’ mission came just as…
MoreGreenland: New oil strategy key to independence
Greenland has acknowledged the need for more professional, ‘high-intensity’ marketing to reach its goal of becoming a profitable oil province, economically independent of Denmark. Arctic Today reports how a study from the Arctic…
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Troops return to Iraq base…..Vestager: EU can become become IT world leader….SAS extends China flight ban…. Danish troops and military advisors are returning to the Iraqi Al-Asad base on March 1 to restart…
MoreSlower growth in Q4
Economic growth slowed slightly in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2019. The latest Statistics Denmark show Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 0.3 percent, slightly down on Q3’s 0.4 percent. In 2019 as…
MoreCIA had access to top-secret Danish communications
Danish politicians and IT experts have reacted angrily to reports that the Danish Military, and Defence Ministry, have since the 1990s spent millions on encryption devices from the Swiss company Crypto AG, which…
MoreU.S. snooping a ‘necessary evil’
Reports that the CIA has possibly listened in on top-secret communications between Danish ministries and embassies abroad for years are ‘alarming’ but could be a ‘necessary evil’ according to leading Danish defence and…
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