Mette F: Denmark won’t veto EU budget
Although Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is opposed to the EU’s long-term budget Denmark won’t be vetoing it. Under questioning during parliamentary question time, Tuesday, the PM issued a warning to countries entering into…
MorePM: Lockdown was a political decision
It was the government alone that made the decision to close down Denmark, the prime minister stated very clearly yesterday at a parliamentary consultation called to review the basis for the wide reaching…
MoreInternational court to rule on family reunification law
Denmark is in the dock today when its controversial 3-year residency requirement for family reunification comes under scrutiny at the International Human Rights Court (IHCR) in Strasbourg, where a Syrian doctor whose wife…
MoreEx-Islamist agitator forms new party
Former imam Ahmed Akkari, a vociferous critic of the Mohammed caricatures fourteen years ago and an instigator of subsequent anti-Denmark riots throughout the Arab world, has formed a new political party that will be…
MoreClimate Council calls for carbon duty on oil giants
The Danish Climate Council, the government’s advisor on green issues, has urged lawmakers to impose a CO2 duty on the oil industry after DR News revealed that companies have been granted free carbon…
MoreSlump in exports, imports, production
Exports and imports, as well as industrial production, declined in April due to the coronavirus outbreak. The latest figures from Statistics Denmark show exports fell 5.8 percent year-on-year in April, the lowest since May 2018…
MoreUS company gets DKK23.7m in corana aid despite multi-million tax debt
Questions are being asked as to why US-owned Cook Medical has been granted DKK23.7m ($3.6m) in wage compensation from the Danish state while at the same time owing the tax authorities DKK 728m…
MoreGovernment’s efforts to cap EU budget a ‘waste of time’
Denmark and its ‘budget-busting’ allies in the ‘Frugal 4’ are having no effect on the EU Commission according to the opposition Liberals and the government’s alliance partner the Social Liberals (Radikale) who have…
MoreCopenhagen less expensive for expats
Copenhagen has dropped to 25th on Mercer’s latest Worldwide Cost of Living Survey, which measures the comparative cost of more than 200 items in 209 cities across five continents including housing, transportation, food,…
MoreVirus updates
Upward tick in hospitalisations….Limits lifted on groups….Fitness chains open on Thursday….Drop in jobless figures… The number of people hospitalised by covid-19 rose by 4, Monday, to 79 after gradually falling for weeks. 16…
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