Ministry tells Danes to get out of Myanmar
The Foreign Ministry has advised all Danish nationals in Myanmar to leave the country as soon as possible amidst the violence due to the military coup. According to Denmark’s ambassador, John Nielsen, there…
MoreBusiness organisation: Student loans not grants
The Danish Chamber of Commerce (DCC) is pushing for reform of the generous student grant (SU) system. The DCC has proposed that those who carry on studying after bachelor level should be offered…
MoreArrest order for tax scammers
Glostrup District Court has issued an international arrest order for the two alleged kingpins behind the multi-billion share dividend scandal. In January the two British nationals – Sanjay Shah and Anthony Mark Patterson…
MoreEaster repatriation plan for Danish kids in Syria?
Following a top-level meeting with the intelligence agencies on Friday there are signs the government is ready to soften its hard-line stance on Danish kids trapped in Syrian detention camps. Two ethnic Danish…
MoreDenmark ready to challenge EU on minimum wage
The EU’s move to impose an EU-wide minimum wage could provoke a showdown with Denmark. In an interview with Bloomberg, Danish Employment Minister Peter Hummelgaard Thomsen said sovereignty over labour market laws has…
MoreDanish players make Qatar protest ahead of World Cup qualifier
Denmark has joined the growing number of European international teams to make a public protest against the treatment of migrant workers involved in building venues for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Ahead…
MoreAnti-vaxxers protest again
The anti-vaxxer Men in Black movement marched through the streets of Copenhagen again, Saturday evening, in protest against a new law that that calls for a ’double-jeopardy’ sentence for committing a crime linked…
MoreVirus updates
Infections rising….11.6% vaccinated…Travel restrictions extended to April 20th…. 964 new corona cases were reported, Sunday, based on more than a quarter of a million tests – a positivity rate of 0.38%. At the…
MoreNew bill would make Facebook, Google pay for news
The government has proposed ‘Australian type’ legislation that would require tech giants such as Facebook and Google to pay for news content on their platforms. After posting a new bill in parliament, Friday,…
MoreBusiness shorts
22 Maersk ships stuck in Suez….Slight increase in retail sales…. 22 Maersk ships are currently stuck in the Suez Canal ’traffic jam’. Until further notice the company, the world’s biggest container carrier, has…
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