Posted on 09. Oct, 2012 in: News

Illegals go unchecked at airport

An estimated 10-70 illegal immigrants a day get off a plane at Copenhagen Airport every day without being checked because the police don’t have sufficient manpower. According to the police’s own trade union…

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Posted on 08. Oct, 2012 in: News

Double agent was recruited in 2006

Morten Storm, who claims he helped Danish Intelligence (PET) and the CIA to locate and murder Anwar-Al-Awlaki, first offered himself to PET as a double agent in 2006, eleven years after he converted…

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Posted on 08. Oct, 2012 in: News

Government pushes to scrap national service

The Danish military is reluctant to abolish mandatory national service for young males even though 95 per cent of recruits today are volunteers. Abolishing national service would require a constitutional amendment so the…

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Posted on 08. Oct, 2012 in: News

Drastic increase in insurance fraud

It’s estimated that insurance fraud is costing companies around DKK2bn a year. The economic crisis has created a sharp rise in social and tax fraud, but insurance companies report that they are also…

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Posted on 08. Oct, 2012 in: News

Danish Intelligence helped CIA to kill terrorist leader says agent

A former undercover agent claims that Danish Intelligence (PET) was directly involved in the hunt for the one of the world’s most wanted terrorist leaders, radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, killed by the…

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Posted on 08. Oct, 2012 in: News

DID PET act illegally?

Danish Intelligence’s alleged participation in the murder of a terrorist leader has sparked off a debate amongst legal experts who disagree as to the legality of PET’s operations in the war on terror….

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Posted on 08. Oct, 2012 in: News

Social Democrats hit rock-bottom in new poll

An estimated 350,000 voters have deserted the Social Democrats since last year’s election, a new Greens poll for for financial daily Børsen shows, as the ruling party has sunk to 16.5 per cent…

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Posted on 08. Oct, 2012 in: News

No euro, thanks

Danish voters have become increasingly negative about increased economic integration within the EU. A new Gallup poll for Berlingske shows that just 22 per cent would vote to replace the Danish krone with…

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Posted on 08. Oct, 2012 in: News

Denmark to resist calls for more NATO spending

The government supports efforts to increase NATO cooperative security for all partners even though Denmark, with a defence budget of 1.4 per cent of GNP, doesn’t live up to the military alliance’s goal…

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Posted on 08. Oct, 2012 in: News

Vilhelmsen could split the SPP

If Anette Vilhemsen becomes the new Socialist People’s Party leader it could lead to an internal war within the party, according to ‘highly-placed’ anonymous sources quoted by Berlingske. Current leader Villy Søvndal has…

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