Posted on 15. Nov, 2019 in: News

Faroes break with Denmark on Israel

The Faroe Islands’ self-governing administration has defied the Danish government by moving ahead with plans to open an independent diplomatic mission in Israel and at the same time recognise Jerusalem as the capital…

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Posted on 15. Nov, 2019 in: News

Social Liberals play hardball on detention centre

The Social Liberals (Radikale) have warned they won’t provide the votes needed to pass the 2020 budget until the government comes up with a detailed plan to move refugee kids out of the…

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Posted on 15. Nov, 2019 in: News

Danish university urges its students to leave Hong Kong

Denmark’s Technical University (DTU) has urged its 36 students in Hong Kong to pack up and return to Denmark. Head of DTU Anders Overgaard Bjarklev said the decision came after the riots spread…

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Posted on 15. Nov, 2019 in: News

Low income workers reduce inequality gap

For the first time in seven years, workers at the lower end of the pay scale have experienced higher wage growth than top earners. Despite concerns about the growing inequality gap, a key issue in the June election, new Statistics…

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Posted on 15. Nov, 2019 in: News

Problems pile up for Danske Bank

Danske Bank, still under investigation in the U.S. Estonia, France, and also this country for its role in the money laundering scandal, was yesterday charged by the State Prosecutor’s Office for Serious Economic…

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Posted on 15. Nov, 2019 in: News

Slight Q3 dip in growth

Economic growth slowed slightly in Q3 to 0.3%, from 0.9% in Q2, the latest Statistics Denmark showed on Thursday. At the same time employment grew by 0.2%. 0.3% matched the EU but was…

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Posted on 15. Nov, 2019 in: News

Business shorts

Vestas opens factory in Brazil, wins big contract in New Zealand / Watchdog warns Handelsbanken…. Clean energy giant Vestas has officially opened a new wind turbine factory in Brazil’s Ceara state. The new…

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Posted on 14. Nov, 2019 in: News

Emotional ambassador decries rise in anti-Semitism

Israel’s Ambassador to Denmark Benny Dagan made an emotional appeal for a crackdown on the rise of anti-Semitism throughout Europe following a visit to the Jewish cemetery in Randers desecrated by neo-Nazis last…

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Posted on 14. Nov, 2019 in: News

Neo-Nazi arrested for graveyard attack

One of the two men arrested yesterday on suspicion of desecrating a Jewish graveyard last weekend has been named as 38-year-old neo-Nazi Jacob Vullum Andersen, a leading member of the far-right Nordfront (Nordisk…

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Posted on 14. Nov, 2019 in: News

PM’s allies defend international conventions

Parties on the left have distanced themselves from Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s claim that international conventions ‘protect the wrong people’ and are forcing Denmark to repatriate Danish jihadists. Backed by the Socialist People’s…

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