Mexico could, Denmark couldn’t
The COP16 agreement in Mexico was a step further than the Copenhagen Accord of Cop15, according to the Socialist People’s Party. On his return home from Cancun, the party’s foreign affairs spokesman, Steen…
MoreLøkke subdued by Cop15 experience
US Ambassador to Denmark Laurie Susan Fulton predicted last February that Lars Løkke Rasmussen would adopt a lower profile in international affairs after the disappointing outcome of the COP15 Climate Conference in Copenhagen….
MoreLiberals: Zero public sector growth until 2020
The ruling Liberal Party wants to freeze public sector expenditure until 2020, not just 2014 as proposed in the government’s restoration plan. As Minister of Finance Claus Hjorth Frederiksen prepares to release his…
MoreFogh allowed expenditure to run wild
Former Conservative Finance Minister Henning Dyremose has lashed out at Anders Fogh Rasmussen for allowing public sector expenditure to run wild during his time as Prime Minister. In an interview with financial daily…
MoreNew threat to government
The government’s fragile majority is again under threat. The Liberal Alliance has threatened to side with the opposition who want to see the mentally ill exempted from rules that only allow a low…
More‘Wild West shoot out’ for Løkke and Villy
Political commentators are predicting a tense duel when Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Socialist People’s Party (SPP) leader Villy Søvndal go face to face in a live TV debate tonight. Mr Søvndal…
MoreHelle, Bill and Tony
Opposition leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt will sit alongside former US President Bill Clinton and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at a forum of the Global Progress Council in New York today, where former,…
MoreLost German children demand an apology
A number of children of German soldiers and Danish women have challenged the Prime Minister to acknowledge that they and their mothers were unfairly treated after the WW2 occupation when the state allegedly…
MoreNo to criminal Palestinians says DPP
The Danish People’s Party’s (DPP) opposition to 35 stateless Palestinians becoming Danish citizens will force the party to vote against a new citizenship bill today. DPP’s spokesman on citizenship, Søren Krarup, said the…
MoreDebt could lead to disaster warns bank boss
Denmark is heading for a ‘Greek tragedy’ according to Saxo Bank CEO Jens K. Høyer. With a national debt approaching DKK100bn, the outspoken bank boss warns in a blog on financial daily Børsen’s…
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