Posted on 15. Dec, 2022 in: News

New government lays out political platform: Targets tax reform, inflation, defence spending, CO2 emissions…..

Acting prime minister Mette Frederiksen, alongside her new partners, Liberal leader Jacob Ellemann-Jensen and Moderates leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen, laid out the new government’s political platform, Wednesday. The 63-page document, entitled ‘Responsibility for…

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Posted on 15. Dec, 2022 in: News

What the papers say

There’s praise for the government’s political platform in today’s editorials but also criticism for the lack of ’new thinking’ and ‘too few climate ambitions’: According to Jyllands-Posten, the government should be praised for…

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Posted on 15. Dec, 2022 in: News

Ellemann-Jensen: Prime minister is only a middle-manager

Liberal leader Jacob Ellemann-Jensen caused a stir at the new government’s first-ever press conference, Wednesday, by saying he still has prime ministerial ambitions and he only sees Mette Frederiksen as a ‘middle manager’….

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Posted on 15. Dec, 2022 in: News

Liberal leader flip-flops again

Jacob Ellemann-Jensen has backed down from another of his pre-election ultimatums. During the campaign, the Liberal leader demanded an investigation into acting Mette Frederiksen’s role in the espionage scandal but, after becoming part…

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Posted on 15. Dec, 2022 in: News

Credit card abuse probe won’t be finished before Spring

The National Audit Office’s review of cabinet ministers’ use of official credit cards won’t be concluded until Spring next year. The probe, which will include a check on all current and previous ministers’…

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Posted on 15. Dec, 2022 in: News

Facebook drops multi-million investment in Odense

Meta, formerly Facebook, has terminated a major expansion project in Denmark with immediate effect. The global social media giant has already invested billions of kroner in a 56.500 sq.metre data centre in Denmark’s…

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Posted on 14. Dec, 2022 in: News

New government: Acting PM announces grand coalition

Denmark has a new government. After six weeks of negotiations, acting prime minister Mette Frederiksen has announced a ‘grand coalition’ that will bring together the Social Democrats, the Liberals (Venstre) and the Moderates….

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Posted on 14. Dec, 2022 in: News

Lars Løkke: The ‘Comeback Kid’ does it again

The new government signals yet another comeback for former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, who quit as Liberal leader after the 2019 election and formed the Moderates this year with the specific aim…

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Posted on 14. Dec, 2022 in: News

Fury on the left

Acting prime minister Mette Frederiksen’s former allies on the left launched a late-night Twitter attack on the new centrist government. Socialist People’s Party (SPP) leader, Pia Olsen Dyhr, said as the head of…

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Posted on 14. Dec, 2022 in: News

Espionage trial won’t end before 2024

Criminal proceedings against suspended ‘spy boss’ Lars Findsen won’t be concluded until 2024 at the earliest. Copenhagen District Court has scheduled 28 hearings, the first on October 30th next year, and doesn’t expect…

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