Posted on 26. Oct, 2018 in: News

Pension companies demand answers about partner’s role in tax scam

Denmark’s three-biggest pension funds have expressed concern about their partnership with Australian investment bank Macquarie. PKA, ATP and PFA own telecom giant TDC alongside Macquarie, which reportedly has played a key role in the…

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Posted on 26. Oct, 2018 in: News

Business shorts

Green power link to UK delayed / PKA invests in California solar energy / Cannabis company goes public The planned Viking Link between Denmark and Great Britain, a 750 kilometre-long power cable that will enable…

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Posted on 25. Oct, 2018 in: News

Social Democrats flirt with DPP but vote alongside government

Although the Danish People’s Party (DPP) and Social Democrats (S) have moved closer together on a number of issues over the past couple of years a review of voting records reveal the main…

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Posted on 25. Oct, 2018 in: News

DPP demands jail for unruly refugees

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has urged the government to ignore international conventions and imprison refugees at the Kærshovedgaard transit centre in West Jutland who commit crime and harass the local community. Following…

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Posted on 25. Oct, 2018 in: News

Opposition demands compensation for stolen social funds

The opposition parties won’t approve more funding for the Rate Adjustment Pool (satspulje), money set aside for the most vulnerable groups in society, until the DKK111m embezzled from the social authorities by a…

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Posted on 25. Oct, 2018 in: News

Saudi ambassador given dressing down at ministry

Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Denmark, Fahad bin Maayouf Al Ruwaily, has been personally informed that Denmark expects a thorough investigation into the death of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Ambassador was summoned to…

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Posted on 25. Oct, 2018 in: News

City Hall apologises for Tibet incident

A Copenhagen resident was asked to remove a small Tibetan emblem from her scarf during a tree-planting ceremony in the capital last year attended by China’s ambassador to Denmark, Deng Ying. E-mail correspondence…

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Posted on 25. Oct, 2018 in: News

Whistleblower to appear before parliament

The Danske Bank employee who blew the whistle on the money laundering scandal in Estonia has agreed to testify at both the Danish and EU parliaments. Howard Wilkinson, a British national who headed…

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Posted on 25. Oct, 2018 in: News

2006 assassination linked to Danske Bank scandal

The Danske Bank scandal took a bizarre twist yesterday when American news and opinion website, the Daily Beast, reported that a Russian banking executive who died under mysterious circumstances in 2006 was the original…

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Posted on 25. Oct, 2018 in: News

Business shorts

Danske Bank stock plummets / Nordea profits drop in Q3 / Carlsberg boosted by hot summer / Norway warned by Denmark about tax scam Danske Bank shares have taken a nosedive in the…

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7:59 – All the Danish News That Fits

7:59 – Danish News Today, is the most reliable source of daily Danish news in English for diplomats, the ex-pat community, the business sector, or anyone in Denmark or abroad seeking an insight into what’s happening in Denmark right now.

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7:59: TODAS LAS NOTICIAS DANESAS DEL MOMENTO.
7:59-Noticias Danesas de Hoy es una nueva fuente de noticias en inglés dirigida especialmente al cuerpo diplomático, extranjeros viviendo en Dinamarca

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