More bad poll news for Løkke
Lars Løkke Rasmussen continues to suffer the political fall-out from the travel expenditure controversy. A new Gallup survey for Berlingske shows that the under fire Liberal leader is now in a virtual dead…
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Nearly 119,877 vacant jobs, mostly in the public sector, were posted on the employment website Jobnet during the first eight months of the year – an increase of 16,891 on the same period…
MoreHi-jacker of Danish ship nabbed in ‘sting’ operation
A notorious pirate kingpin, suspected of being behind the hi-jacking of the Danish coaster ‘Danica White’ in 2007, has been arrested in a Hollywood-style sting that lured him from Somalia to Belgium to…
MoreGreenland amends ‘social dumping’ bill but not enough say unions
Greenland’s self-rule administration is making renewed efforts to push through an amended the Large Scale Projects Act (Storskalalov), but trade unions still fear it will lead to social dumping. The Act is an integral…
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C20 up / Green company caught in ash dispute C20 Copenhagen Stock Exchange’s trend-setting C20 index closed at 634.2, Tuesday, close to the all-time high of 635.7. Fl Smidth and Vestas led the…
MoreLiberals punished in new poll
The Liberals have now fallen to their lowest polling numbers since the 2011 election. The latest Megafon poll for TV2 gives the main opposition party, which was attracting support of 34 per cent…
MorePrime Minister more credible than Løkke
Polling research by Megafon for TV2 shows Liberal leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen trailing Prime Minister in credibility. 39% consider the PM to be the ‘most credible’ of the two, with 30% siding with…
MoreNew EU referendum
The prospect of a new EU referendum became a reality, Monday, when Danish People’s Party leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl stated very clearly that his party wouldn’t be providing the votes the government needs…
MoreDear Løkke: ‘Show us your receipts’
There’s nothing to stop Lars Løkke Rasmussen publishing details of the DKK1m he’s spent travelling around the world in his capacity as chairman of the Global Green Growth Institute, according to the Ministry…
MoreUS movie star donates $1m to Lundbeck project
American film star Michael J. Fox has donated one million US dollars to two Danish Parkinson’s Disease research projects being conducted by Danish drug giant Lundbeck. The money from the Michael J Fox…
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