Posted on 20. Nov, 2024 in: News

Denmark the global leader in climate performance

Denmark is the highest-ranked country on the 2024 Climate Change Perfomance Index (CCPI) that will be presented at the COP29 Climate Conference in Baku today. The top three spots remain open but Denmark is…

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Posted on 20. Nov, 2024 in: News

Foreign nurses forced to leave due to slow evaluation process

Dozens of foreign nurses have been forced to leave Denmark despite being invited here due to an acute shortage of manpower in hospitals. Jyllands-Posten reports that since 2021 approximately 1,750 nurses from non-EU…

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Posted on 20. Nov, 2024 in: News

TV2 reported to police as ‘Black Swan’ fallout continues

Partially state-owned broadcaster TV2 has been reported to the police for alleged ‘incitement to crime’ when it aired the ‘Black Swan’ TV documentary earlier this year in which leading lawyers, businessmen, criminal bikers, and…

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Posted on 20. Nov, 2024 in: News

And the rich get richer…

Berlingske’s annual list of Denmark’s ‘100 most wealthy’ confirms that the rich have gotten richer over the past year. The list, based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets, shows the Kirk…

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Posted on 19. Nov, 2024 in: News

Government seals ‘Green Tripartite’ deal – farmers facing tax on greenhouse gases

A parliamentary majority has finally concluded a political agreement on the ‘Green Tripartite’, the pact reached in June between the government, agriculture, and environmental groups aimed at transforming Denmark’s land use. The Green…

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Posted on 19. Nov, 2024 in: News

Damaged data cables in Baltic Sea reawake Nord Stream controversy

Two damaged data cables have been discovered in the Baltic Sea, raising concerns of a re-run of the Nord Stream pipelines sabotage. The severed cables affected connections between Germany and Finland, as well…

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Posted on 19. Nov, 2024 in: News

Red/Green leaders have previous links to terror groups

While leading figures in the Red/Green Alliance (Enhedslisten) have distanced themselves from party members who support terror organisations a review of their past statements by news site BT reveals they too have been…

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Posted on 19. Nov, 2024 in: News

Muslims dominate disability pension statistics

Immigrants from Muslim countries are massively overrepresented in terms of disability pension recipients. A new study by the Confederation of Danish Employers (Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening/DA) reveals that nearly two-thirds of Iraqi immigrants over 50 are…

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Posted on 19. Nov, 2024 in: News

Denmark’s new AI super computer high on list of world’s most powerful

Denmark’s first AI supercomputer, ‘Gefion’, is ranked 21 among the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers according to the latest TOP500 list which has been ranking the world’s most powerful supercomputers since 1993. Gefion…

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Posted on 19. Nov, 2024 in: News

Business shorts

Following Novo Nordisk’s global success with its diabetes/weight-loss products, CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen has been ranked 29th on Fortune’s first-ever 100 Most Powerful People in Business List. Tesla/X owner CEO Elon Musk is…

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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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