Denmark places DKK37m order for new vaccine
Denmark has pre-ordered 280,000 doses of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine at a cost of DKK37m ($5.84m), around DKK 175 per dose, as part of a European Union agreement with the U.S. company. The European…
MoreWind energy giant suffers slowdown
Despite international focus on green energy, Vestas, the world’s biggest wind turbine maker, has been forced to cut its 2021 outlook following low second-quarter (Q2) operating profits of €101m ($118.32m), significantly below the…
MoreEllemann’s 10-point plant to unify opposition
Ahead of the Liberals’ (Venstre) summer conference in Kolding this weekend struggling party leader Jacob Ellemman Jensen has laid a common political platform aimed at bringing the ‘blue bloc’ parties together ahead of…
MoreWhy did DPP leadership remain silent for 5 years in EU fraud affair?
Questions are being asked as to why it took Danish People’s Party (DPP) leadership five years to state categorically that the party’s summer get together in 2015 wasn’t an EU conference, as claimed…
MoreVirus updates
Infections up…..’R’ rate stable at 1…. 1,004 new corona cases were reported Tuesday, a 10-day high and 69 more than Monday – 1.65% of the 60.676 PCR tests taken over the 24-hour period…
MoreMohammed illustrator buried in secret grave
Deceased Mohammed illustrator Kurt Westergaard has been buried in a secret location to prevent vandalism and reprisals from Muslim extremists Mr Westergaard, who in 2005 drew the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed with a…
MoreMicrosoft, Amazon billionaires invest in Greenland exploration
Two of the world’s richest men, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, are behind a company that’s planning to invest DKK100m ($15m) in the exploration of mega-metal deposits in Greenland Mineral exploration…
MoreCompany director facing prison for exploiting Philippine drivers
A director, a chairman of the board, and two leading employees of the Danish haulage contractor Kurt Beier Transport are facing three years in prison for their role in the Philippine drivers scandal….
MoreDanish inflation lower than US, EU
Inflation, on the rise in many countries, has eased in Denmark. Compared to the 5.4% seen in the US in June, the highest since 2008, 5.4% in Hungary and Poland, and 3.8% in…
MoreSabre-rattling Red/Greens threaten government
The Red/Greens have threatened to topple the government this autumn unless it addresses the problem of child poverty. The far-left party’s titular leader, Mai Villadsen, warned last night she would table a vote…
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