Government presents inflation aid package
Finance Minister Nikolaj Wammen presented the government’s DKK 2.3bn ($340 million) inflation relief package, Monday, aimed mainly at the least well-off senior citizens who will receive a one-off DKK5,000, tax free – which amounts…
MoreGovernment leaders make secret trip to Ukraine
The government has promised full support to Ukraine for the reconstruction process but still hasn’t agreed to give the Leopard-2 tanks that are desperately needed. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Defence Minister Jacob Ellemann-Jensen,…
MorePM offers support for Ukrainian Peace Formula
During talks in Mykolaiv, Monday, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Ukraine’s President Zelensky discussed the possibility of strengthening the air and anti-ship defence of the southern regions of Ukraine and also the necessity…
MorePutin’s ‘pit bull’ threatens Paludan
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has warned anti-Islamist Rasmus Paludan there will be a price to pay for burning the Koran. After the Danish politician continued his Koran-burning crusade outside the Turkish and Russian…
MoreCity Hall aims to decriminalise heroin, cocaine
A political majority at Copenhagen City Hall is pushing to decriminalise hard drugs. The City Council has been given a mandate to ask the government for permission to set up a radical 3-year…
MoreAlleged miscarriage of justice in Samsam affair
Danish citizen Ahmed Samsam, who was found guilty in Spain of supporting the Islamic State, is the victim of a ‘miscarriage of justice’ according to two former top civil servants. 32-year-old Samsam was…
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Pork giant fires 550…..Energy developer signs up to world’s biggest green energy park….Danish banker cleared of fraud allegations…. Danish Crown, the world’s largest pork exporter, has announced plans to lay off off 100…
MoreIslamaphobe burns Koran outside Copenhagen embassies
Danish anti-Islamist Rasmus Paludan burned a copy of the Koran outside a mosque in Copenhagen, Friday, before driving away and doing the same in front of the Turkish and Russian embassies, just one…
MoreMohammed crisis part 2?
International protests against anti-Islamist Rasmus Paludan bring back memories of the Mohammed cartoons crisis in 2005, former Danish ambassador to Germany, USA, and China, Friis Arne Petersen, said yesterday after three Koran-burning incidents…
MoreTurkish hackers take revenge for Koran burning
The National Bank’s website was taken down over the weekend by a group of Turkish hackers in revenge for the Koran burnings in Copenhagen, Friday. The group, which calls itself ‘Ghost Killer’ said…
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