Posted on 12. Dec, 2022 in: News

Minkgate at centre of goverment negotiations

Acting prime minister Mette Frederiksen admitted last night that the Minkgate affair has played a significant role in ongoing government negotiations. In an interview with TV2, after Moderates leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen and…

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Posted on 12. Dec, 2022 in: News

Allies attack Liberals and Moderates after mink U-turn

The Liberals’ and Moderates’ U-turn on a potential legal inquiry into the mink scandal provoked an angry reaction from their allies on the right. Conservative leader Søren Pape Poulsen accused the two leaders…

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Posted on 12. Dec, 2022 in: News

Social Democrats win Faroe Islands election

The Faroe Islands Social Democrats mirrored their sister party in Denmark by winning the largest share of votes in an election, Thursday – the Javnaðarflokkurin Party received 27% of the vote while the…

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Posted on 12. Dec, 2022 in: News

Industrial production decline

Denmark’s industrial production decreased slightly in October. The latest Statistics Denmark figures show a seasonally adjusted 2.3% month-on-month decline, following 1.3% growth in September: “A reflection of the global uncertainty caused by Russia’s…

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Posted on 12. Dec, 2022 in: News

Business shorts

Electricity prices up by 83% since last year….Pension fund invests in solar energy….German Lidl sells its Danish supermarkets to Norwegian chain… The price of electricity in this country increased by 15% between the…

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Posted on 11. Dec, 2022 in: TWTW

The Week That Was, November 5th – December 11th 2022:

Politics/Economy: The Conservatives and Socialist People’s Party pulled out of government negotiations that have now lasted nearly six weeks, breaking the previous record from 1975 when it took Social Democrat leader at the…

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Posted on 08. Dec, 2022 in: News

Ministry of Defence hit by cyber attack

Several Ministry of Defence websites suffered a cyber-attack, Thursday. The Ministry initially claimed the outage was due to a technical error but later confirmed that the sites were hit by a distributed denial-of-service…

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Posted on 08. Dec, 2022 in: News

Russia: Denmark is hiding identity of gas pipeline saboteurs

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has again accused Denmark and Sweden of excluding the Russian authorities from the investigation into the explosions that damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in…

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Posted on 08. Dec, 2022 in: News

Alternatives in new U-turn on Minkgate investigation

The Alternatives have ‘flip-flopped’ again and are now in favour of an independent legal inquiry into acting prime minister Mette Frederiksen’s role in the mink scandal. The ‘green’ party, which holds the decisive…

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Posted on 08. Dec, 2022 in: News

Health Authority lifts Covid guidelines ahead of Christmas

The Danish Health Authority has eased the national guidelines for Covid-19 due to the low number of recorded cases of the virus this autumn. In the run up to Christmas, many will be…

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7:59 – Danish News Today, is the most reliable source of daily Danish news in English for diplomats, the ex-pat community, the business sector, or anyone in Denmark or abroad seeking an insight into what’s happening in Denmark right now.

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