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Experts optimistic as infections stabilise…..62% of all infections found in ethnic communities… 78 new coronacases were registered yesterday, a significant drop on 112 the precious day – the number of hospitilisations fell by…
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Consumer spending back to normal….Danske Bank grants new rights to ‘rainbow families’….Jyske fires 200 following disastrous six months…. Dankort and MobilePay usage in the first 17 days of August, usually a reliable indicator…
MoreThe Week That Was, August 16th– 23rd 2020:
Coronavirus/ What happened last week: The use of face masks on public transport become mandatory, Saturday, as part of the revised phase 4 of the reopening process – during the first two weeks…
MoreConservatives, denied tax cuts, dismiss early retirement scheme
The Conservatives won’t be supporting the government’s key early retirement scheme. Despite recently indicating a willingness to negotiate if granted tax relief in return, party leader Søren Pape Poulsen backed down yesterday, citing…
MoreConservative leader calls for cohesion on the right, denies prime minister ambitions
Conservative leader Søren Pape Poulsen laid out five key issues in a speech at the Conservatives summer conference, Thursday, aimed at bringing the opposition parties together. He said that parties in opposition often…
MoreOpposition leader affirms strict immigration policy
Under pressure Liberal leader Jakob Ellemann-Jensen has reaffirmed his commitment to a strict immigration policy. In an interview with Avisen Denmark ahead of the Liberals’ summer conference that gets underway today he acknowledged…
MoreFinance sector pushback on government’s tax threat
Leading financial institutions continued to push back yesterday against the government’s plan to fund its early retirement scheme with DKK3bn ($480 million) of new taxes on banks, pension funds, and high earners. With…
MoreData watchdog broke its own rules
The Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet), which supervises the protection of sensitive and personal information, has for months violated its own rules. Documents that possibly contained confidential information on citizens and which should,…
MoreMaersk ship at centre of political struggle in Malta
It isn’t the Danish merchant navy’s job to solve the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, the Danish Shipowners Association (DSA) said yesterday on the 16th day of the stand-off in Malta where an…
MorePM targets immigrants in new crime bill
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has warned the government is ready to crack down on crime. In a turnaround from normal ‘soft’ Social Democrat policy she told MPs at the party’s summer get together,…
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