Posted on 11. Jul, 2019 in: News

Inflation dips for 3rd consecutive month

Inflation continues to fall. The latest Statistics Denmark figures show the consumer price index rose by only 0.6 percent year-on-year in June, which was slower than the 0.7 percent increase in May and…

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Posted on 11. Jul, 2019 in: News

Exports, imports slow down

Exports and imports increased in May, year on year, but at a slower rate than April. The latest Statistics Denmark figures show exports excluding ships, aircraft, and fuel climbed 3.8 percent year-on-year in…

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Posted on 11. Jul, 2019 in: News

Maersk replaces oil with renewable energy

A.P. Moller Holding, the family-owned fund that controls Denmark’s biggest company, A.P. Moller-Maersk, will acquire Danish wind turbine supplier KK Group in a first step into the renewable energy industry. The acquisition marks…

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Posted on 11. Jul, 2019 in: News

Business shorts

Vestas inks India deal / Japanese investors like Danish bonds / Pension funds invest in Texas wind farm…. Vestas has signed a deal to build a new assembly plant in India that will…

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Posted on 10. Jul, 2019 in: News

Ex-Minister: Ghettoes are ghettoes

The new government is determined to ease up on its predecessor’s strict immigration and integration policy, former integration minister Inger Støjberg said yesterday after Housing Minister Kaare Dybvad slapped a ban on using…

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Posted on 10. Jul, 2019 in: News

Government joins push for EU financial transaction tax

The government is ready to join the group of ten countries pushing for an EU financial transaction tax (FTT). The Social Democrats have for years supported the idea of a 0.2% tax on…

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Posted on 10. Jul, 2019 in: News

Russian nuclear submarine passing through Danish waters today

Four Russian military vessels will pass through Danish territorial waters today on their way to the annual naval parade in St. Petersburg. The nuclear-powered submarine Smolensk, missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov, guided missile destroyer Severomorsk, and the…

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Posted on 10. Jul, 2019 in: News

Somalis cheated state out of millions

Two Somali nationals have been jailed for three years and three months after admitting to defrauding the state out of millions in public funding earmarked for socially vulnerable Somali refugees and their descendants….

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Posted on 10. Jul, 2019 in: News

Ambassador gets extension

Zindzi Mandela’s term as ambassador to Denmark has been extended until the end of the year. Following the recent Twitter dispute, when the 59-year-old daughter of Nelson Mandela was accused of sending racist…

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Posted on 10. Jul, 2019 in: News

Denmark gets ‘slap on the wrist’ for denying a pedophile his rights

The European Court of Human Rights has fined Denmark €2,000 for denying a convicted sexual offender the right to an independent medical and psychiatric examination but dismissed the plaintiff’s demand for €50,000. Tim…

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