650 jobs lost at Copenhagen Airport as devastation continues
Copenhagen Airport (CPH) has announced plans to lay off a quarter of its workforce – 650 full-time employees – due to the reduced passenger traffic amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The airport plans to…
MoreHealth supremo urges government to pause phase 4 following spike in infections
Head of the National Serum Institute, Kåre Mølbak, has advised against allowing nightclubs and music venues to reopen within the near future. In response to the recent increase in COVID-19 infections Denmark’s ‘health…
MoreHealth Minister: Nightclubs to stay shuttered
Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said last night that he wouldn’t give night clubs and discos the green light to open under the upcoming ‘phase 4’ easing of restrictions if the health authorities advise…
MoreInfections continue to rise
77 new corona cases were confirmed, Tuesday, but the number of people hospitalised by the virus remained the same at 24. There were no new deaths. Although political parties have expressed concern about…
MoreSomalis in Aarhus hit by corona
104 new corona cases have been registered in Denmark’s ’second-city’, Aarhus, over the past week and half of them involved members of the local Somalian community. Mayor Jacob Bundsgaard said the authorities have…
More‘Godhavns boys’ sue the state
15 of the so-called ‘Godhavns Boys’ who were beaten, abused and subjected to medical experiments when placed in a children’s home on Bornholm between 1946-76 are suing the state for DKK4.5m. When the…
MorePrince discharged from hospital following brain surgery
Prince Joachim, Queen Margrethe’s second son, has been discharged from the hospital in France where he underwent emergency brain surgery ten days ago. He is currently recuperating at the Royal Family’s summer residence,…
MoreBureaucratic red tape strangling entrepreneurship
More than 1 in 3 Danish companies believe government red tape and bureaucracy is a barrier to increasing turnover and growing their business, a new survey by the Danish Entrepreneurship Association (DIF) shows….
MoreDPP’s attack on Islam could violate constitution
The ‘Islamification of Denmark’ is high on the agenda of the Danish People’s Party’s (DPP) summer conference that got underway, Monday, but some of the far-reaching proposals put forward could be in violation…
MoreChange at the top as populists try to halt slump
Controversial MP Morten Messerschmidt has been appointed deputy leader of the Danish People’s Party (DPP) replacing Søren Espersen who’s stepped down from the leadership group. The news was announced at the populist party’s…
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