EU plans help for embattled cucumber producers
The EU Commission announced emergency plans today to provide assistance to hard-pressed cucumber and salad farmers in the wake of the German E Coli crisis. An extraordinary meeting has been called in Luxemburg…
MoreElection themes laid out in Constitution Day speeches
Party leaders and other prominent politicians set out the themes of the coming election campaign in the traditional Constitution Day speeches on Sunday throughout Denmark. For the leaders of the two governing parties,…
MoreGreenland seeks to deport Greenpeace activists
The Greenland authorities in Nuuk are preparing the legal case to throw out 18 activists from Greenpeace in the immediate future. The activists occupied the exploratory drilling platform, “Leiv Eriksson”, in an attempt…
MoreSome good news says food safety boss
The Food Safety authority in Denmark will reassess its warnings on the consumption of salad vegetables from Germany and Spain. The announcement came in the light of Sunday’s news that beansprouts grown in…
MoreGerman no thanks to nuclear power opens door to Danish energy companies
The closure of all German nuclear power stations by 2022, announced by Chancellor Angela Merkel last week, represents a huge opening for Danish energy companies. Danish Energy has looked closely at the figures…
MoreKilling of Kashmiri important for Denmark
Assassinated terrorist leader Ilyas Kashmiri was obsessed with attacking Jyllands-Posten, claims Swedish researcher, Magnus Ranstorp. The Swede explained that Kashmiri was known to have given revenge for the Mohammed cartoons a high profile…
MoreDanish sales tax hits tourism
Sales tax in Denmark, known as moms in Danish, is having a major impact on the tourist business, reports financial daily, Børsen, today. The internationally high level of 25% has led to the…
MoreDistortion street festival over to mixed reviews
The phenomenally successful Distortion four day street festival was attended by double the expected amount of people, organisers and local politicians said in the aftermath of the party. This, admitted Pia Allerslev, Copenhagen…
MoreHaarder owes the public an explanation
Opposition politicians from Social Democrats, (S), and the Socialist People’s Party, (SF), moved to capitalise on the revelations in Friday’s Information that then Integration Minister, Bertel Haarder, had ignored civil servants’ advice on…
MoreRocket reaches the skies, sort of
After a week of media hype, the privately built space rocket was launched from somewhere off the coast of Bornholm on Friday afternoon. The maiden journey of “Tycho Brahe” was fairly modest, however,…
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