Prince starts defence attaché job in Washington
Prince Joachim starts a new job today as defence industry attaché at the Danish embassy in Washington, DC. The Queens’s second son, who is accompanied in the US by his wife Princess Marie,…
MoreNovo Nordisk responds to Biden’s push for lower drug prices
US President Joe Biden, addressing soaring insulin prices, recently targeted major pharmaceutical firms, including Denmark’s Novo Nordisk. To lower prices, the Biden administration has presented a list of ten prescription drugs, including insulin…
MoreGDP growth gives government more money for climate, welfare and health
Denmark’s GDP is expected to grow more than expected this year, to 1.2% instead of the previously projected 0.6%, providing the government with far more money to spend, financial daily Børsen reports this…
MoreLiberals demand excess cash be used to fund tax cuts
Liberal (Venstre) leader Jacob Ellemann-Jensen could find himself at odds with his coalition allies by calling for tax cuts. The Liberals suggested tax relief before the summer recess and now, with state finances…
MoreLøkke pushes for foreign workers to ease manpower shortage
Moderates leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen has repeated his call for more foreign workers to ease the labour shortage. Following his 3-day trip to Kenya last week the Foreign Minister suggested that importing manpower…
MoreDPP: Send asylum seekers to Greenland
Parties on the right and left have distanced themselves from the Danish People’s Party (DPP) proposal to relocate asylum seekers to a holding centre in a remote area of Greenland. The populist party…
MoreSocial Democrats: Less work equals less welfare
The Social Democrats have warned that people’s eagerness to work shorter hours or take early retirement will damage the welfare state. In an interview with Jyllands Posten the party’s policy spokesperson, Christian Rabjerg…
MoreØrsted shares plummet as company hit with $2.3bn extra costs in U.S.
Shares in partially state-owned green-energy giant Ørsted nose-dived, Wednesday, following bad news from the U.S. where supply chain delays, a higher cost of borrowing due to rising interest rates, and trouble obtaining tax…
More‘Beef tax’ to reduce CO2 emissions
The government is considering imposing a ’red meat’ tax to help reduce CO2 emissions, following a report by the green think tank CONCITO that highlighted the need for extensive changes in the public’s…
MoreDefence Minister urges more countries to donate F-16s to Ukraine
Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen has called on more countries to follow Denmark’s lead and donate fighter jets to Ukraine. Ahead of a Brussels meeting with his EU counterparts today Mr Lund Poulsen…
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