Non-western immigrants a $5bn burden on state
Non-western immigrants and their descendants cost the Danish state DKK33bn ($5bn) in 2017, DKK4bn less than the previous year, while ‘ethnic’ Danes made a positive contribution 0f DKK 58bn ($8.5bn) according to the…
MoreImmigration Minister calls for more Syria deporations
Immigration & Integration Minister Mattias Tesfaye has ordered the immigration authorities to speed up the processing of hundreds of Syrian asylum seekers from the Damascus region. He said yesterday that around 100,000 Syrian…
MoreIranian tied to assassination plot gets 7-year prison sentence
The Norwegian-Iranian accused of plotting to assassinate a leading member of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (ASMLA) was sentenced to seven years in prison by Roskilde District Court, Friday….
MoreConsumers rush to spend as shops reopen
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen urged consumers to ‘spend, spend,spend’ last week to help keep the wheels of the economy turning but new figures from Statistics Denmark show they already started to loosen the…
MoreVirus updates
New study shows Danes carried virus to Sweden, Iceland, Latvia….Only 31 hospitalised….Fewer bankruptcies despite downturn A team of Copenhagen University researchers has concluded it was ’most probably’ Danes who passed on the corona…
MoreBusiness shorts
1,700 SAS workers fired…..Pension fund invests in European green bond….Authorities approve Ørsted deal…. 1,700 Danish employees of struggling Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) will be receiving a ’pink slip’ –you’re fired notice – this morning….
MoreRacist party leader gets three months in prison
Rasmus Paludan, head of the far-right Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party was given a three-month jail sentence and disbarred from the legal profession after being found guilty on 14 counts of racism by Næstved…
MorePM puts EU before wedding
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has postponed her wedding scheduled for July 18th in order to attend next month’s EU recovery fund summit, the first physical meeting that leaders will attend since countries enforced…
MoreTravel restrictions eased to most EU countries
Danes have been given the green light to travel to nearly all EU countries from Saturday except those with a high level of corona infections, which remain on ‘orange alert’. Foreign Minister Jeppe…
MoreVirus updates
Upward tick in hospitalisations…29 infections linked to Pakistan flight…. The number of patients hospitalised by covid-19 rose by three, Thursday, to 36 – nine are intensive care. There were no new fatalities so…
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