Energy giant wins name battle
Partially state-owned wind giant Ørsted has won a legal battle over the use of its own name after a court battle with descendants of the Danish scientist who inspired its identity change from…
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Slight dip in inflation / Vestas profit slowdown / Danske Bank appoints new CEO…. Inflation fell to 1.0% year on year in April, down from 1.2% last month, slightly lower than expected (1.1%)….
MoreLøkke plays ‘tax freeze’ card
Last week it was the ‘welfare card’ – this week it’s tax. The ruling Liberals have vowed to freeze all taxes and duties in a re-run of ex-party leader Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s 20012…
MoreAnalyst: Recycling 20-year-old tax policy won’t work
The Liberals’ tax freeze proposal is flashback to the start of the century and an exact copy of ex-PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s tactics but it’s unlikely to provide his successor with the comeback…
MoreNew poll signals good news for Løkke
After a long winter of depressing opinion polls there could be light at the end of the tunnel for Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and his allies on the right. The latest YouGov…
MoreNo support for ban on asylum seekers
The Danish People’s Party’s (DPP) call for a ban on asylum seekers has been dismissed by parties on both the right and left. Opposition leader Mette Frederiksen rejected the proposal out of hand, Friday,…
MoreMette Frederiksen’s recipe for victory – right on immigration, left on the economy
In her bid to re-win power opposition leader has made a dramatic right turn on immigration but turned the Social Democrats to the left economically – a policy that looks like making her…
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Porn, swastikas, exclusion for fascist…but immigration isn’t a big issue… The Liberal Alliance’s Joachim B. Olsen has defended paying for an advert on porn website, Pornhub, in which he tells sex-surfers: “When you’ve…
MoreSwedish schoolgirl to address Climate March
Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg will speak outside Christiansborg (parliament) on May 25th at the ‘People’s Climate March’ (Folkets Klimamarch). Editor of Politiken Christian Jensen said it will be a ‘major honour’ to present…
MoreAnti-Islamist calls for eradication of all Muslims
In a previously unknown YouTube video head of the far-right right ‘Stram Kurs’ (Hard Line) party, Rasmus Paludan, appears to call for the extermination of Muslims throughout the world. In the December 2018…
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