Industrial production decline
Denmark’s industrial production decreased slightly in October. The latest Statistics Denmark figures show a seasonally adjusted 2.3% month-on-month decline, following 1.3% growth in September: “A reflection of the global uncertainty caused by Russia’s…
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Electricity prices up by 83% since last year….Pension fund invests in solar energy….German Lidl sells its Danish supermarkets to Norwegian chain… The price of electricity in this country increased by 15% between the…
MoreMinistry of Defence hit by cyber attack
Several Ministry of Defence websites suffered a cyber-attack, Thursday. The Ministry initially claimed the outage was due to a technical error but later confirmed that the sites were hit by a distributed denial-of-service…
MoreRussia: Denmark is hiding identity of gas pipeline saboteurs
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has again accused Denmark and Sweden of excluding the Russian authorities from the investigation into the explosions that damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in…
MoreAlternatives in new U-turn on Minkgate investigation
The Alternatives have ‘flip-flopped’ again and are now in favour of an independent legal inquiry into acting prime minister Mette Frederiksen’s role in the mink scandal. The ‘green’ party, which holds the decisive…
MoreHealth Authority lifts Covid guidelines ahead of Christmas
The Danish Health Authority has eased the national guidelines for Covid-19 due to the low number of recorded cases of the virus this autumn. In the run up to Christmas, many will be…
MoreOver 1000 postal votes went missing in general election
Around 1,100 postal votes were not counted in the recent parliamentary elections, despite being submitted before the deadline. Earlier reports indicated that only 417 mail-in votes had not been counted, but it has…
MoreStrike warning as labour market negotiations loom
Insiders have warned that strikes are likely, as the labour market braces for potentially heated collective bargaining negotiations. According to a report by the FAOS Employment Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen,…
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Clean energy companies target green exports…DK-UK ‘Viking Link’ moves ahead…Top Copenhagen restaurant takes up Japan residency….6 young Danes on prestigious business list…. Partially state-owned green energy company Ørsted has joined forces with Danish…
MoreSocialists quit government talks
The Socialist People’s Party (SPP) quit government negotiations, Wednesday, claiming political differences with the Liberals were too great. Party leader Pia Olsen Dyhr said talks had reached a point where the SPP had…
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