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U.S. launches probe into Danske Bank’s German ally / Electric buses ready to roll in Roskilde… The US Federal Reserve is investigating Deutsche Bank’s role in the Danske Bank money laundering scandal. The…
MoreDefence Minister: We can’t ban Huawei
The government takes political concerns about Huawei very seriously but has no legal possibility of excluding the Chinese telecom giant from Denmark’s new 5G telecommunications infrastructure, Defence Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen told a…
MoreDefence Minister calls for Star Wars rules
Defence Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen has called for international rules regarding the use of so-called killer robots – lethal autonomous weapons, LAWs, as they are known – an issue high on the agenda…
MoreFinance Minister airs doubts about EU digital tax
France needs to show a willingness to compromise before Denmark supports the proposal for an EU-wide digital tax, Finance Minister Kristian Jensen said yesterday ahead of a Brussels meeting with his EU colleagues….
MorePro-EU parties lead the way as election approaches
The Social Democrats and Liberals are way out in front in the countdown to the EU election in May. A new YouGov poll indicates the Social Democrats stand to win 22.5% of the…
MoreVestager slaps Mastercard with €570m fine
After punishing Google, Facebook, and Apple, Denmark’s aggressive EU Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, has now fined global credit card giant Mastercard €570m ($647m) for limiting competition between banks. “By preventing merchants from shopping…
MoreWatchdog: Finance sector could face fallout from money laundering scandal
Denmark’s reputation as a relatively corrupt-free country has taken a battering from the Danske Bank money laundering scandal, the Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) acknowledged in a risk assessment, Tuesday, warning that Danish financial firms…
MoreTerrorist on trial
A 31-year-old Syrian man charged with planning to explode one or more bombs in Copenhagen and stabbing random people with kitchen knives told Copenhagen District Court, Tuesday, he’d lived a ‘varied life’ before…
MoreBioscience firmed named ‘world’s most sustainable’
Denmark’s Chr. Hansen Holding tops this year’s Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable companies, which ranks large corporations across the globe on their performance reducing carbon and waste, their gender diversity among…
MoreForeign Minister calls for more sanctions against Russia
Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen has urged the EU to tighten sanctions on Russia for continuing to detain 24 Ukrainian sailors. At an EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels, Monday, ahead of his trip…
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