Western European banks may pull away from crisis countries
In a recent ‘stress test’ of the European Union’s banks, the European Banking Authority (EBA) concluded that approximately 106 billion Euro are needed before banks can comply with the EU solvency requirement of…
MorePact won’t stop kick-start says PM
The euro pact won’t prevent the government’s planned DKK17bn kick-start programme of infrastructure improvements that gets underway on January 1st but it will have an influence on Danish economic policy in the future,…
MorePact will impose limits says expert
The new fiscal pact agreed by the 17 eurozone members could limit the Danish government’s possibility of implementing expansive crisis policies in the future, a leading economist claims. Professor Bo Sandemann Rasmussen of…
MoreHousing market still struggling
The stagnant housing market has made more and more potential sellers remove the ’for sale’ sign. The number of properties on offer has fallen for the fourth month in row but there’s still…
MoreNew Liberal leak scandal
The Liberal Party has been rocked by another leak scandal. On an audio file obtained by tabloid daily Ekstra Bladet, TV2 journalist Rasmus Tantholdt is heard explaining very clearly how former defence minister…
MoreNew poll, new nose-dive for Social Democrats
A new opinion poll provides even more problems for Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt as she struggles with the repercussions of the euro pact agreement. The latest Voxmeter poll for Ritzau gives the ruling…
MoreAnalyst: PM should come down hard on Søvndal
Minister of Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal committed a major political blunder by claiming that Denmark can’t accept certain elements of the new EU pact and should be reprimanded. That’s the view of Berlingske…
MoreReferendum demands
A new Rambøll opinion poll shows that a majority of votes want a referendum if Denmark decides to join the new euro fiscal pact. 53.9% believe the electorate should be heard if politicians…
MoreChinese counterfeit problems for Novo
An extremely professional Chinese manufacturer has sent a very exact, and illegal, counterfeit version of Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk’s insulin pens onto the Chinese market. A Novo spokesman said 300 copies have…
MoreConsumer prices up
Danish consumer prices rose by 2.6% in November compared to the same month last year, the latest Statistics Denmark figures show, although the rate of inflation fell slightly from the 2.8% of the…
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