Ex-PM: Danes complacent about sexual harrasment
Denmark’s slowness in embracing the MeToo movement is a reflection of Danes’ complacency about sexual harassment, according to Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Denmark’s first-ever female prime minister. “We’ve long assumed that we’d achieved gender equality,”…
MoreMoller-Maersk still Denmark’s biggest
Shipping giant A.P.Moller-Maersk remains firmly entrenched as Denmark’s biggest company. Berlingske’s annual list of the top-100 businesses in this country has APM leading the way, followed by medicinal flagship Novo Nordisk. Transport company…
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Electric car sales fail to match government’s ambition….Top Danish executive grilled by U.S. Congress…..Denmark leads the way in high-speed broadband…… The government has targetted half a million electric cars on the road by…
MoreEx-PM sued by Latvian bank
Ex-prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen is being sued by a Latvian bank declared insolvent last year after the European Central Bank (ECB) declared it was ‘likely to fail’. The bank owed €32m at…
MoreGovernment’s key ally threatens to pull climate support
The Social Liberals (Radikale) have threatened to withdraw support for the government’s climate bill climate proposal presented last week if it isn’t improved. Party leader Morten Østergaard told Weekendavisen he feels ‘cheated’ by…
MorePM sends best wishes to Trump
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen sent a ‘get well soon’ message to Donald Trump, Friday, after the US president was hospitalised with the corona virus. “I send the warmest greetings to the President and…
MoreParty leader forced to step down
Pernille Skipper, titular head of the Red/Greens, has fallen foul of the party’s ’rotation principle’ and will be forced to step down. According to the party’s own rule book no MP can stand…
MoreInfection rate stabilises
378 new corona cases were registered Sunday, 8 more than the previous day, as 11 people were hospitalised. Professor Lars Østergaard, infection specialist at Aarhus University Hospital, said the figures indicate that the…
MorePaludan in new Koran provocation
Members of the anti-migrant Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party staged a new Koran-burning demonstration close to an immigrant-dominated district of Fredericia, Friday. Led by controversial leader Rasmus Paludan, party members burnt several copies…
MoreCopenhagen fund raises DKK5bn for green investment in Asia
Fund management company Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) is preparing to pump billions of dollars of green investment into Asia as it focuses on the region for a new renewable energy fund. CIP has…
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