Posted on 11. Jun, 2013 in: News

Red/Greens demand breast-feeding rights

The Red/Green Alliance is demanding legislation that will give new mothers the right to breast feed their baby in cafes, restaurants, and other public places. The party’s health spokesperson, Stine Brix, said a…

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Posted on 11. Jun, 2013 in: News

Students should pay for tuition says opposition

The opposition has called on the government to appoint a new commission to consider the use of user fees for college and university students. The Liberals’ education spokesperson Esben Lunde Larsen said one…

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Posted on 11. Jun, 2013 in: News

Mass redundancies at hearing aid company

Danish hearing aid company Widex, the world’s seventh-biggest manufacturer of hearing aid products, is reportedly preparing to move production facilities to Latvia, making between 400-500 people redundant at its Helsinge and Vassingerød factories. Leading…

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Posted on 10. Jun, 2013 in: News

Slight gains for coalition but opposition still on course for victory

All three coalition parties make gains in a new Gallup poll but the centre-right opposition would still win a convincing victory if an election was held today. The ruling Social Democrats top 20%,…

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Posted on 10. Jun, 2013 in: News

Welfare state inhibits work, initiative

The comfort zone provided by the welfare state has had a debilitating effect on Danes’ work ethics, a new study by the right-leaning think-tank CEPOS shows. Project leader of the study, Casper Hunnerup…

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Posted on 10. Jun, 2013 in: News

Foreign specialists top earnings list

While East Europeans, Turks, and Pakistanis in this country often have to work hard to earn far less that what the average Dane earns, other groups of migrants, especially those from Western countries,…

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Posted on 10. Jun, 2013 in: News

Few self-employed women in Denmark

Danish women are poor entrepreneurs. A new report by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) shows that comparative countries have far more self-employed women– Holland has twice as many and Sweden one and a…

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Posted on 10. Jun, 2013 in: News

Poverty on the rise

The official poverty level in Denmark, as defined by an expert government committee, shows clearly that the number of financially poor in this country has risen significantly over the past decade. At the…

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Posted on 10. Jun, 2013 in: News

Loosening fiscal policy could be ‘problematic’ says Lykketoft

Speaker of the House, and former Social Democrat leader, Mogens Lykketoft has come out in support of beleaguered Finance Minister Bjarne Corydon who’s under mounting pressure from all sides to loosen the government’s…

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Posted on 10. Jun, 2013 in: News

Novo denies tax avoidance

Confidential tax information showing that Novo Nordisk’s taxable income should be at least DKK22m higher than it has declared is a threat to the company’s high CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) ranking, experts claim….

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