Posted on 14. Sep, 2011 in: News

Personal liberties have been reduced

Civil liberties have been seriously challenged during the past ten years of the Lib/Con coalition. The right-leaning think tank Cepos claim that more rules, more bureaucracy, and more public surveillance have led to…

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Posted on 14. Sep, 2011 in: News

New Libya mandate during first 100 days says PM

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has vowed to bring Danish fighter jets home from Libya before Christmas. In an interview with Politiken he said a new, cross-party, Libya strategy and the smooth withdrawal…

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Posted on 14. Sep, 2011 in: News

Nondescript Lars Løkke

Denmark’s Prime Minister is dismissed as an ‘an unremarkable’ character in the latest edition of The Economist, ‘…who only got the job because his predecessor left to become head of NATO’. The respected…

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Posted on 14. Sep, 2011 in: News

Change tomorrow?

 Get the lowdown on tomorrow’s election in University Post journalist Anna Meera Gaonkar’s excellent summary of last week’s 7.59 election briefing: http://universitypost.dk/article/danish-election-will-change-everything And while you’re there – 41 reasons why Danes are so…

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Posted on 14. Sep, 2011 in: News

No confidence in exports

Companies have reduced their expectations for the only bright spot of the Danish economy – exports. A new survey of 663 top business leaders paints a grim picture of export possibilities. In the…

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Posted on 14. Sep, 2011 in: News

Kabul attacks won’t change transition policy says Fogh

NATO Secretary General, and former Danish PM, Anders Fogh Rasmussen vowed last night that the Taliban attacks on Kabul wouldn’t derail the transition process: See Reuters report: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/13/us-afghanistan-nato-attacks-idUSTRE78C2ON20110913

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Posted on 13. Sep, 2011 in: News

EU delays border control plans until after election

The EU Commission has delayed the release of its proposal for new border control legislation until the day after the Danish general election. The proposal should have been presented today in Strasbourg today…

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Posted on 13. Sep, 2011 in: News

Pia K: Something rotten at the EU

Danish People’s Party leader Pia Kjærsgaard is in ‘no doubt’ that the EU Commission has postponed the release of its new border control proposal because of the Danish election and urged the Prime…

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Posted on 13. Sep, 2011 in: News

Kabul embassies under attack

NATO headquarters, the US Embassy and other diplomatic missions in the centre of Kabul have come under attack from Taleban rebels. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Danish Embassy has been…

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Posted on 13. Sep, 2011 in: News

Evictions on the rise – families on the street

Social Minister has acknowledged that more and more people are being thrown out of their own homes because they can’t afford to pay the rent. Ms Kjær claimed last year that the number…

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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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7:59: TODAS LAS NOTICIAS DANESAS DEL MOMENTO.
7:59-Noticias Danesas de Hoy es una nueva fuente de noticias en inglés dirigida especialmente al cuerpo diplomático, extranjeros viviendo en Dinamarca

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