Posted on 21. Mar, 2011 in: News

Danish jets in ‘high-risk’ mission over Libya

Danish fighter jets were involved in air strikes against Libya, Sunday, just 30 hours after parliament sanctioned Denmark’s participation in the ‘Odyssey Dawn’ mission against Muammar Gaddafi. Minister of Defence Gitte Lillelund Bech…

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Posted on 21. Mar, 2011 in: News

Showdown with Gaddafi

As fighter jets prepared to rain missiles down on Libyan regime forces, Saturday, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said that a broad international coalition had sent a clear message to Muammar Gaddafi –…

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Posted on 21. Mar, 2011 in: News

Troops on the ground too, say Socialists

The first cracks have started to appear in the historic, cross-party parliamentary agreement to support military intervention against Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya. The normally anti-military Socialist People’s Party (SPP) has suggested that…

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Posted on 21. Mar, 2011 in: News

Refugees avoid Denmark

The increasing stream of refugees fleeing from North African hasn’t had any visible effect on Denmark – in fact, quite the opposite. New figures show that the number of people seeking asylum in…

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Posted on 21. Mar, 2011 in: News

DPP leader: Danish politics ‘paralysed’

Danish politics is treading water right now as everybody waits for the election to be called, Danish People’s Party leader Pia Kjærsgaard said yesterday. “It’s an odd situation”, she said. “Lots of talk…

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Posted on 21. Mar, 2011 in: News

Health survey good news for opposition

Health issues top the list of voter concern. A new Analyse Denmark survey shows that the health sector plays the biggest role when voters are asked who’ll they be backing in this year’s…

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Posted on 21. Mar, 2011 in: News

A referendum would be ‘irresponsible’ says MEP

Jens Rohde, Liberal member of the EU Parliament, has warned Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen not to put EU cooperation at risk for the sake of a domestic election campaign. The PM has…

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Posted on 21. Mar, 2011 in: News

No challenge to EU rulings says Minister

Minister of Integration Søren Pind says he can see no reason to challenge EU rulings that undermine Danish immigration legislation – much to the dismay of the Danish People’s Party (DPP). Mr Pind…

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Posted on 21. Mar, 2011 in: News

Danes embarrassed by Danish

Danes are suffering from a ‘language inferiority complex’ – they don’t feel that Danish sounds very nice. A new Copenhagen University survey reveals that not only do Danes believe that most other languages…

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Posted on 21. Mar, 2011 in: News

Another convention violation?

The government has once again been accused of violating an international immigration ruling. According to a European convention, passed unanimously by the Danish parliament, all applicants who are rejected have to be given…

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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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