Integration minister agrees to review family reunification rules
Integration Minister Inger Støjberg has agreed to review the requirements for family reunification, the so called ‘chain migration’, following a rise in the number of deportations for foreign-born minors. The Danish media recently…
MorePM lobbied business friends for panda diplomacy funding
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen personally lobbied some of Denmark’s biggest companies for money to help build the new panda compound at Copenhagen Zoo. China offered to loan Denmark two giant pandas during the…
MoreLicence plate scanners to help enforce environment zones
Number-plate recognition will play an integral role in the government’s wide-ranging climate proposals presented earlier this month, aimed at reducing CO2 emissions by as much as 37 million tons. According to an internal government…
MoreGeorgia’s ambassador calls for change in asylum status
Denmark could halt the influx of asylum seekers by declaring Georgia a safe country of origin, Georgia’s ambassador, Gigi Gigiadze, has said. Georgian nationals have become the 3rd-largest group of asylum seekers, after…
MoreDanske Bank whistleblower granted immunity
The Danske Bank whistle-blower has been granted immunity from prosecution when he testifies before the Danish parliament next month. Howard Wilkinson, a British national who headed Danske’s trading unit at its Estonia branch…
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Energy company cleared of abusing market position / Stock market recovers Elsam, a subsidiary of partially state-owned energy company Orsted, Elsam has been cleared by Danish competition authorities over claims it had broken…
MoreLøkke’s climate summit paid for with aid money
The invoice for the P4G (Partnership for Growth) climate summit held in Copenhagen two weeks ago will be covered by Danish development aid funding. Although the final costs for Prime Minister Lars Løkke…
MoreNew Conservatives: We need to keep Muslims out
Next year’s general election will be a one-issue campaign for the New Conservatives – immigration. At the far-right party’s annual convention over the weekend, leader Pernille Vermlund stressed the message: ‘It’s our country…
MoreFinance, tax scandals on election agenda
The Danske Bank money laundering scandal and the Tax Authority’s (SKAT) multi-billion share dividend-tax fraud will have major implications for the general election to be held before June 2019, according to US new…
MoreLøkke on Arctic patrol
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen spent Friday night in the arctic wilderness of north-east Greenland as a guest of the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol (Siriuspatruljen), an elite Danish naval unit. In a Ministry of State press…
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