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Novo donates $30m to US university / Vestas fires 90 workers following slow European demand and sells off Romanian power plants….. Pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk has donated around DKK183m ($30m) to North Carolina…
MoreLøkke fights back – warns of ‘catastrophe’
The Liberal leadership crisis dominated the headlines, Wednesday, as former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen continued to fight for his political life. Faced with internal division within the party and calls for him…
MoreEllemann-Jensen considering leadership bid say analysts
Jakob Ellemann-Jensen’s reluctance to fully support party leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen is a sign he’s considering a leadership challenge, according to leading political commentators. At the start of the week the policy spokesman…
MoreJensen accepts criticism
The Liberals’ deputy leader has praised the man who’s leading the insurgency in Jutland to remove Lars Løkke Rasmussen as party leader. Kristian Jensen characterised Jens Nicolai Vejlgaard, the chair of the Liberal…
MoreTrump Baby ready to fly
President Trump may have cancelled his state visit to Denmark next week but he’ll be here in spirit – the ‘Trump Baby’ balloon, which became famous worldwide during the president’s July 2018 visit…
MoreRed/Greens exclude Muslim extremist
A controversial Muslim leader has been excluded from the Red/Greens for suggesting that women who commit adultery or seek a divorce should be stoned. The far-left party said Kasem Said Ahmad, a former…
MoreRussia: Trump’s Greenland bid was ‘justified’
Moscow has remained silent about President Trump’s failed bid to buy Greenland, but according to a Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman the ‘offer was justified’, US Newsweek reports. “These are two sovereign states who…
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Sydbank joins negative interest race / Copenhagen Airport 6th on friendliness index / Danish Crown sells off UK’s biggest pork producer…. A second Danish bank has targeted its richest depositors by imposing negative…
MoreLiberal base turns against Løkke: ‘We need change’
The chair of the Liberal Party’s (V) Midtjylland regional board has urged leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen and his deputy, Kristian Jensen, to step down and clear the way for ‘new blood’. Following a…
MoreLiberal MPs divided on leadership dispute
Support for Liberal leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen is also crumbling within the party’s own parliamentary group. Former justice spokesman Preben Bang Henriksen last night became the first MP to publicly back (policy spokesman)…
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