Emergency packages to be phased out as economy recovers
The diverse range of financial aid packages passed by parliament to help businesses through the corona crisis should be phased out by July 8th, an expert group of advisors appointed by the government…
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Hospitalisations could drop to under 100 by weekend….Savings boosted by shutdown…Danish boffins develop corona testing robot…British praise for Danish response…. The number of patients hospitalised by covid-19 could fall below one hundred within…
MoreGreta gets angry with Copenhagen
Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has criticised Copenhagen for dumping large amounts of wastewater into the Øresund strait separating Sweden and Denmark over the past six years. Although local regional authorities’ plan…
More‘Ghetto’ residents sue government
A group of residents from Mjølnerparken, the much-maligned social housing estate on the fringe of Nørrebrø in Copenhagen, is suing the Housing Ministry for approving a plan to sell off half of the…
MoreBanks ‘buffered up’ for downturn
Danish banks are better prepared to survive a downturn than they were ahead of the 2009 financial crisis but not all would survive a prolonged crisis, the National Bank warned yesterday in its…
MoreDid government cover up health report?
A warning that closing down society could cause more harm than good was removed from a Danish Health Authority (DHA) draft report released the day before Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen dramatically announced the…
MoreFinance Ministry: Corona effect will last for years as economy faces DKK350bn loss
The corona crisis will affect the Danish economy for years to come, Finance Minister Nicolai Wammen said yesterday after presenting the government’s bi-annual Economic Review. He told reporters the economy is likely to…
MoreFrench minister warns ‘Frugal 4’
Denmark and its allies in the ‘Frugal 4’ want the EU to lend, not give, money to countries hard-hit by the corona epidemic but their real objective is to prevent the EU’s long-term…
MoreSweden calls on Denmark to open border
Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde has urged Denmark to open its border to Sweden. The Minister said yesterday it’s ’understandable’ that people living in Skåne (south Sweden) are frustrated at Denmark’s stubbornness when…
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No new deaths….48,000 jobs lost…. There were no new deaths from covid-19, Tuesday, as the death rate remained stable at 563 – the fourth time over the past two weeks that no fatalities…
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