PM heads climate team in New York
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is heading a team of ministers in New York this week attending the UN’s Climate Action Summit and later the official opening of the UN General Assembly. The PM…
More70% cut in CO2 emissions ‘symbolic’ but inspiring says minister
Climate minister Dan Jørgensen has acknowledged that the government’s ambition to cut carbon emissions by 70% in little more than a decade is largely symbolic. In an interview ahead of his trip to…
MoreClimate Minister: Taxpayers ready to fund government’s green agenda
Ahead of UN’s Climate Action Summit that gets underway in New York today Climate Minister Dan Jørgensen claimed that Danish taxpayers aren’t concerned about paying even more taxes to fund the government’s ambitious…
MoreNo green deal for electric car buyers
Norway has become the world leader in electric car sales by waiving hefty vehicle import duties and registration and sales taxes for buyers but Denmark is reluctant to follow despite lofty ambitions to reduce…
MoreEnvironment Minister touts Danish water technology in US
Minister for the Environment Lea Wermelin headed a Danish trade delegation promoting Danish green, water-quality technology at WEFTEC, the Water Environment Federation’s Technical Exhibition and Conference in Chicago over the weekend. Twelve Danish…
MoreBank charges customers to deposit money
Customers of Jyske Bank, Denmark’s second-largest bank, will in future be forced to pay a negative interest rate of 0.75% on all accounts holding more than DKK 750,000 ($111,100). Last week the National…
MoreDenmark signs up to Macron’s EI2 defence strategy
Denmark will formally join the European Intervention Initiative (EI2) today, a common defence strategy set out by President Macron in September 2017 as part of his vision for a ‘sovereign, united and democratic…
MoreEx-justice minister in professional secrecy dispute
Former justice minister Søren Pind could have breached professional secrecy in his autobiography published this week by referring to a 2015 meeting with the U.S. FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). In the book…
MoreGovernment wants smoke-free generation but dithers on price increase
The government’s long-awaited anti-smoking action plan has been dismissed as ‘toothless’ by health insiders. Ahead of the election the Social Democrats promised to fight for a smoke-free generation by 2030 but their proposal to…
MoreGovernment pulls the plug on refugee island
A plan to house failed asylum seeker or criminal immigrants at a purpose-built deportation camp on the deserted island of Lindholm has now been officially dropped by the government. The plan, passed by…
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