Posted on 05. Feb, 2016 in: News

Foreign Minister defends Saudi trip

Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen continues to resist calls to drop an official trip to Saudi Arabia. The Minister, accompanied by the Crown Prince couple, the health and environment ministers, and a business delegation,…

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Denmark gives DKK400m to Syria – not enough says left-wing

Denmark has agreed to give a further DKK400m in humanitarian aid to Syria, bringing the total contribution this year up to DKK688m. Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen made the commitment at the Syria…

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Cameron in Copenhagen today

British prime minister David Cameron arrives in Copenhagen today looking to secure support for the draft agreement which was published on Tuesday by Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council. Mr Cameron…

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No asylum for criminals

A wide, cross-party majority in parliament is ready to tighten the residency rules by denying asylum to any refugee  convicted of criminality in this country, whether it be shoplifting, burglary, or sexual violations….

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Court upholds passport seizure

Copenhagen District Court has ruled the police acted correctly when they confiscated the passport of a Danish citizen, Joanna Palani, after she returned to Denmark from the Iraqi Kurdistan region and Kurdish areas…

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Business minister calls for more productivity

Danish industrial production has been lagging behind since the 1990s and needs to step up a gear, Business & Growth Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said yesterday as he presented the ministry’s annual review…

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Vestas signs deals in Pakistan, Ireland

It’s been a busy week for Vestas. In Pakistan, the Punjab government and the Danish wind turbine giant signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build the country’s largest windfarm. Jesper Moller Sorensen,…

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Business shorts

DONG deal for world’s biggest wind farm/Foreign companies face fines/NOVO profit boost DONG: Partially state-owned Dong Energy is going ahead with the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the Hornsea project off the coast…

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Posted on 04. Feb, 2016 in: News

‘Trump would drop a nuclear bomb on Denmark’

The Republican Party’s new front-runner, Senator Ted Cruz, has suggested that his opponent, Donald Trump, is so unstable that if he were president he might spontaneously decide to ‘nuke Denmark.’ In response to…

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Posted on 04. Feb, 2016 in: News

Government looks for UK-type EU deal

The Danish government wants the same deal as the UK so it can limit EU citizens’ right to social benefits in another country. Ahead of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to Copenhagen…

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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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