Posted on 03. Jun, 2011 in: News

Danish involvement in major heroin seizure in Afghanistan

A Danish police team was centrally involved in a headline drugs capture, reported Jyllands-Posten this week . Working closely with the Afghani police force and British soldiers, the training team confiscated some 27kg…

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Posted on 03. Jun, 2011 in: News

Economists support critique of colleagues in banking sector

The eminent economists, Torben Andersen and Christen Sørensen, have backed up the Social Democrats’, (S),  allegations of political bias by economists in the banking sector.  Tax spokesman, Nick Hækkerup, had suggested that economists…

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Posted on 01. Jun, 2011 in: News

Løkke: What recession?

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen remains upbeat about the economy, despite new GDP figures showing that Denmark is now officially in a recession. After giving what commentators described as his most optimistic speech…

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Posted on 01. Jun, 2011 in: News

Parliament: The year that was

As parliament prepares for the summer recess, Politiken asked a number of leading MP’s for their view of the legislative year that’s coming to an end. Johannes Schmidt-Nielsen, policy spokeswoman for the far-left…

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Posted on 01. Jun, 2011 in: News

Green agenda slides to a halt

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen named ‘growth’ 36 times during his speech to parliament yesterday and ‘green’ just twice, a sign, according to left-wing daily Information, of how priorities have shifted since Denmark…

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Posted on 01. Jun, 2011 in: News

Helle exploits tax loophole

Helle Thorning-Schmidt refused to respond to journalists’ questions yesterday about why she leases her car in Germany, thereby saving 6% in VAT – around 163 kroner every month. Although a parliamentary majority, including…

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Posted on 01. Jun, 2011 in: News

Denmark losing out (again) in growth countries

Danish companies are lagging far behind in most of the world’s emerging growth companies. After it was revealed last week how Denmark is under-performing in the fast-growing BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China),…

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Posted on 01. Jun, 2011 in: News

Demographic challenge

A decreasing number of ethnic Danes and a rapidly-growing immigrant population – that’s the integration challenge facing Denmark over the next few decades. In response to a new Statistics Denmark prognosis showing that…

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Posted on 01. Jun, 2011 in: News

LA support for asylum kids

The Liberal Alliance has demanded better conditions for refugee children living in asylum centres as its price for supporting the government’s proposal to increase the penalties for criminality. The government won’t have a…

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Posted on 31. May, 2011 in: News

Economy slips back into recession

Danish GDP sank by 0.5% in Q1, as both private and public spending fell dramatically. It was expected that GDP would rise during the first three months after a dip of 0.2% in…

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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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