Posted on 21. Oct, 2013 in: News

Bishop worked for intelligence agencies

Former Bishop of Copenhagen Erik Normann Svendsen was part of an intelligence network that gathered information about Danish communists during the 1960’s. In an interview with Jyllands-Posten the Bishop, who performed the wedding…

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Posted on 18. Oct, 2013 in: News

Løkke’s institute rocked by scandal

The Korea-based Global Green Institute (GGI), at the centre of the current travel expenditure scandal involving Liberal leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen, was rocked by a corruption scandal last year. South Korea’s Board of…

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Posted on 18. Oct, 2013 in: News

GGGI scandal: Minister needs to come clean

The Liberals’ Søren Pind has urged Development Minister Christian Friis Bach to reveal everything he knows about the corruption scandal at the Global Green Institute (GGGI). Mr Pind, who’s spent the last week…

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Posted on 18. Oct, 2013 in: News

Norway demands travel expenditure report

The travel expenditure scandal surrounding Lars Løkke Rasmussen continues to widen. As a major contributor to the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) Norway has now demanded a full report of the under-fire Liberal…

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Posted on 18. Oct, 2013 in: News

Development Minister praises Løkke

Beleaguered Lars Løkke Rasmussen has been given a show of support from an unexpected source – Development Aid Minister Christian Friis Bach. As the media and political storm continues to gain strength, Mr…

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Posted on 18. Oct, 2013 in: News

DPP on EU Patent Court: Case closed

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has no intention of backing down on the EU Patent Court issue. After the Social Democrats’ Henrik Sass Larsen said he still believed, and hoped, that the government…

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Posted on 18. Oct, 2013 in: News

EU threatens legal action over missing water plan

The European Commission has threatened to take Denmark to court unless the government submits new plans for water legislation within two months. The Commission has waited for the plans, aimed at improving Denmark’s…

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Posted on 18. Oct, 2013 in: News

No incentive to work

The financial incentive for benefits recipients to take a low-paid job is often less than one thousand kroner per month, new figures from the right-leaning think-tank CEPOS show. And even in ten years’…

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Posted on 18. Oct, 2013 in: News

Wanted: Grey MP’s

The Danish Parliament has become a virtual ‘youth club’ and is lacking a few ‘older, wiser heads’. Newly-elected MP’s have become steadily younger since 1953 and the average age of the Danish parliament…

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Posted on 17. Oct, 2013 in: News

Søvndal awaits Greenland’s ruling on uranium

Foreign Minister Vily Søvndal is waiting to see whether Greenland’s self-rule government allows the extraction of uranium in Greenland before getting involved in a potential dispute. A recent report commissioned by the Greenland…

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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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