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Q1 disaster for Vestas after Russian withdrawal….Record sales of electric cars….Manufacturing output up….. Vestas, the world’s biggest supplier of onshore wind turbines, has downgraded its revenue forecast for 2022 and doesn’t expect to…
MoreIndian PM declines to denounce Russia, concentrates on business
Prime Mette Frederiksen expressed hope that India would ‘use its influence’ over Russia and Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine during talks with her Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, in Copenhagen, Tuesday…
MoreGovernment’s Rwanda plan threatens PM’s EU dream
Prime Mette Frederiksen’s hopes of placing Denmark at the ‘heart of Europe’ are threatened by the government’s plan to send unauthorised asylum seekers to Rwanda, according to Berlingske’s political editor Bent Winther in…
MoreDenmark 2nd in freedom of the press
Denmark has risen to 2nd place on the latest World Press Freedom Index rankings published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Tuesday. Norway tops the rankings, followed by Denmark and Sweden with Estonia…
MoreMinkgate report: No health threat if industry resumes
A new report finds that the majority of mink breeders have found alternative employment since their business was controversially closed down by the government in 2020 at the height of the corona crisis…
More‘Dubai Leaks’ names Danish tax avoiders
More than 100 Danish nationals and companies are facing a tax probe after being named in ‘Dubai Uncovered’, a new data leak that has revealed how criminals, tax evaders, and other shady figures…
More251,000 foreign workers but Denmark needs more
The number of foreign nationals in full-time employment in this county has doubled since 2010. A new study by the Confederation of Danish Industry (DI), based on Statistics Denmark figures, shows that of…
MoreUnemployment lowest since 2008
There was a slight drop in the unemployment rate in March as 1,300 people found work The latest Statistics Denmark show 72,000 people were without work in March, from 73,300 the preceding month,…
MoreDenmark reopens Kyiv embassy
The Danish embassy in Ukraine has reopened 10 weeks after it closed down following Russia’s invasion. Denmark’s ambassador, Ole Egberg Mikkelsen, was originally relocated to Lviv in the western part of the war-torn…
MoreRussian ambassador warned about airspace violation
Violating Denmark’s airspace is a completely unacceptable breach of international rules – that was the stern message from Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod to Russia’s ambassador to Denmark, Vladimir Barbin, Monday morning, who’d been…
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