Australia declines firefighter offer
Thanks…but no thanks. Denmark’s offer to send a skilled team of 50 firefighters to help tackle the raging bushfires has been turned down by the Australian authorities. Earlier this week the Danish Emergency…
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Danske fires 108 in Finland / SAS passenger figures up / Metro city link to close for two weeks…. Danske Bank has announced plans to cut up to 108 jobs in Finland due…
MoreGovernment pulls Danish troops from bombed base
The majority of the 133 Danish troops at the Al-Asad air base in western Iraq that was attacked by Iranian war planes, Tuesday, are to be relocated. At a press conference yesterday Prime Minister…
MoreIranian Embassy honours slain general
Iran’s embassy in Copenhagen has paid tribute to Qassem Soleimani, head of the country’s elite Quds Force, who was killed by a U.S. air strike last week. A poster of the military leader…
MoreDPP: All Iranian leaders are terrorists
The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist – the Danish People’s Party’s Morten Messerschmidt’s reaction to the death of Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated on orders from President Trump, Friday….
MoreDramatic increase in homelessness
6.431 people in Denmark remain homeless despite the previous government’s goal of 4,000 by 2020. At a parliamentary consultation, Tuesday, where Social Minister Astrid Krag was asked to explain the ever-growing problem, the…
MoreGovernment miscalculates cash reserves
The government appear to have seriously miscalculated the state’s cash reserves. In its latest Economic Review published in December, the Finance Ministry concluded that the state’s net cash balance (nettokassesaldo) showed a deficit…
MoreUnemployment stabilises at 3.7%
The unemployment rate continues to remain stable. The latest Statistics Denmark figures, for November, show the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 3.7%, the same as seen in October. Overall, unemployment fell to 104,400…
MoreNational Bank defends krone’s link to euro
Denmark’s foreign exchange reserve declined from DKK441bn in November to DKK435bn in December as the National Bank bought DKK4.1bn in foreign exchange reserves to shore up the krone against the euro. In October…
MoreNew SAS strike threat
Watch out if you’re planning to fly with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) around Easter. Less than one year after the pilots’ strike that grounded most all flights in and out of Norway, Sweden and…
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