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Ørsted makes $57bn investment in green energy….Denmark to head Maritime Mission…..Magasin sold to German chain… Partially state-owned Ørsted, the world’s largest offshore wind farm developer, has announced plans to quadruple its capacity over…
MoreImmigrants convicted of terrorism ‘free to roam’
Five residents of the much-criticised Kærshovedgård holding centre for criminal immigrants and failed asylum seekers have been convicted of terrorism or complicity in a terrorist act yet are free to move around in…
MoreSocial Liberals turn right
The government’s left-wing allies have accused the Social Liberals (Radikale) of siding with the opposition after the centrist party’s leader, Sofie Carsten Nielsen, called for extensive labour market reforms and significant tax cuts….
MoreVestager distances herself from espionage scandal
Denmark’s Executive Vice President of the European Commission Margrethe Vestager has distanced herself from any knowledge of the espionage scandal when she was deputy prime minister in Denmark between 2011-14, a period when…
MoreNo TV at ex-minister’s impeachment trial
A wide, cross-party majority has, as expected, rejected a bill put forward by former immigration minister Inger Støjberg that would have allowed her upcoming impeachment trial to be televised. Only the Danish People’s Party,…
More500,000 Astra Zeneca vaccines could be wasted
Half a million doses of the Astra Zeneca vaccine, dropped from the national vaccination programme, are at risk of being discarded when their expiry date runs out this summer. Politicians on both sides…
MoreVirus updates
Slight dip in positivity rate…..Health authority to reevaluate discarded vaccines….30,000 sign up for voluntary vaccination….’R’ rate stable….Testing strategy costs Dkk2bn per month…. 908 new corona cases were reported Tuesday, 64 up on the…
MoreEconomists: No need for intervention despite risk of housing market bubble
The red-hot housing market doesn’t need any outside restraints despite National Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) concerns about a new bubble, the so-called ‘Wise Men’ of the Economic Council said in their…
MoreMacron, Merkel demand answers
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have demanded answers from both the Danish and U.S. governments regarding allegations that the Danish Defence Intelligence Service (FE) helped the US spy on…
MoreNo support for benefits reform
The ’Benefits Commission’s’ proposals for reform of the complicated and bureaucratic social entitlement system, published Monday, have already been dismissed by parties on both sides of the aisle. The government’s parliamentary allies, the…
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