Denmark backs Dutch legal efforts against Russia
Denmark has backed the Netherlands’ legal efforts to free the 30 Greenpeace activists, including Danish national Anne Mie Roer Jensen, who are being held in pre-trial detention in the northern Russian city of…
MorePM, Queen, to greet leaders
Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal will hold talks with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon today who’s in Copenhagen to attend the Global Growth Forum. Later in the day, Ethiopia’s…
MoreJoint Franco-Danish declaration on green trade liberalisation
During their meeting in Copenhagen, Monday, Nicole Bricq, the French Minister for Foreign Trade, and Nick Hækkerup, the Danish Minister for Trade and European Affairs agreed on the following joint declaration on green…
MoreDenmark launches ‘Opportunity Africa’
The Danish government has launched ‘Opportunity Africa’ , a political initiative aimed at combining traditional foreign policy with development co-operation, as well as trade and investment, to support green economic growth in Africa….
MoreLøkke apologises for excessive travel expenditure
Opposition leader Lars Løkke Rasmusen apologised yesterday for his excessive travel expenditure as chairman of the Global Green Growth Institute. At a Copenhagen press conference, where he released 206 pages of invoices, hotel…
MorePress conference strategy was modelled on ‘West Wing’
Lars Løkke Rasmusen’s strategy for his marathon press-conference, Sunday, was a mixture of honesty, perseverance, and staying power that could have been modelled on an episode of the US political series, the West…
MoreLøkke’s press conference: What the papers say
The national press generally agree that opposition leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen performed OK during his marathon press conference, Sunday, but his reputation has suffered a serious setback and he’s going to have to…
MoreLøkke: I won’t quit
Although Lars Løkke Rasmussen has acknowledged that his travel expenditure on behalf of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) was excessive he has no intention of refunding any of the DKK770,000 spent on…
MoreLiberals sink again in new poll
A new Voxmeter poll shows the Liberals have for the first time ever dipped to under their election result. After a week of turbulence surrounding leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen the poll registers just…
MoreRefugee protest to Italy?
The Social Democrats have urged the government to make an official protest to Italy after reports that Syrian refugees have been physically abused by Italian police. The party’s justice spokesperson, Trine Bramsen, claimed…
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