Posted on 18. Nov, 2020 in: News

Job losses in mink industry will mainly hit east-Europeans

Dire warnings of thousands of Danish farmhands being made jobless by the mink cull appear to be unfounded. The latest figures from the Ministry of Labour reveal that out of 1,821 wage earners…

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Posted on 18. Nov, 2020 in: News

Virus updates

High rate of infections…..Serum Institute projects December increase…’R’ rate up….. 1,220 new cases of corona were registered, Wednesday, the 4th-highest single-day figure since the pandemic broke out in March – however, according to…

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Posted on 18. Nov, 2020 in: News

Swedish authorities clear Danish anti-Islamists: Koran burning isn’t a crime

Members of the Danish anti-Muslim ‘Stram Kurs’ (Hard Line) party weren’t specifically targeting an ethnic group when they set fire to a Koran in a Muslim-dominated district of Malmo last summer, a Swedish…

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Posted on 18. Nov, 2020 in: News

Economy bounces back from recession

The economy bounced back strongly in the third quarter (Q3) as the retail and service sector gradually reopened but remains well below 2019 levels. The latest Statistics Denmark figures show Gross Domestic Product…

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Posted on 18. Nov, 2020 in: News

U.S. lawmakers tighten sanctions on Nord Stream 2 suppliers

Sanctions that could halt the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline currently under construction in Danish territorial waters have been included in the annual US defence policy bill, EU affairs newspaper Neweurope reports….

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Posted on 17. Nov, 2020 in: News

When Obama met Løkke at Cop15: ‘He looked like he’d been in a wrestling match’

In his autobiography that’s published this week ex-U.S. president, Barak Obama, provides a detailed description of his meeting with former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen at the Copenhagen Climate Summit (COP15) in 2009….

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Posted on 17. Nov, 2020 in: News

Left-wing support for government’s illegal mink order

The government has finally put together a parliamentary majority for its controversial order to cull Denmark’s entire mink population. All the ‘red bloc’ parties – the Social Democrats, Social Liberals (Radikale), Socialist People’s…

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Posted on 17. Nov, 2020 in: News

Experts denounce government’s mink policy

Leading law experts have dismissed the government’s shutdown of the mink industry as unprecedented and without any legal basis. Professor Henrik Rothe, project leader at judicial think tank Justitia, said yesterday the government continues…

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Posted on 17. Nov, 2020 in: News

Food Minister still living on borrowed time

Although the centre-left parties have rescued the government by supporting its illegal order to cull millions of mink they aren’t prepared to do the same for under-fire food minister, Mogens Jensen. The Social…

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Posted on 17. Nov, 2020 in: News

Serum Insitute withheld crucial information

Leading virus experts have questioned why the National Serum Institute (SSI) failed to share crucial information about the coronavirus in mink that could have helped the authorities to manage the outbreak better. Data…

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7:59 – All the Danish News That Fits

7:59 – Danish News Today, is the most reliable source of daily Danish news in English for diplomats, the ex-pat community, the business sector, or anyone in Denmark or abroad seeking an insight into what’s happening in Denmark right now.

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