Posted on 05. Sep, 2022 in: News

Think-tank: Denmark and Baltic countries on the frontline of international energy crisis

Following last week’s Baltic Sea Energy Security Summit in Copenhagen, when Denmark and seven other EU countries signed a declaration to increase offshore wind power generation capacity sevenfold by 2030 and decrease dependency…

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Posted on 02. Sep, 2022 in: News

Foreign Minister: ‘Putin is a little man’

Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod stressed Denmark’s full support for Ukraine’s efforts to resist the Russian invasion during talks with President Zelensky in Kyiv, Thursday. Mr Kofod said a number of issues had been…

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Posted on 02. Sep, 2022 in: News

Division on the right

The political truce between the opposition’s two prime minister candidates was shattered yesterday when Liberal leader Jakob Ellemann-Jensen dismissed his Conservative counterpart, Søren Pape Poulsen’s 2030 plan as ‘unrealistic’ and claimed the proposal…

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Posted on 02. Sep, 2022 in: News

Red/Greens tired of centrists’ flirt with the opposition

The government’s parliamentary alliance with the Social Liberals (Radikale) is like having an opposition spy in the camp, the far-left Red/Greens’ policy spokesperson, Mai Villadsen said last night in an interview with TV2…

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Posted on 02. Sep, 2022 in: News

Defence Minister accuses Putin of trying to turn the clock back

Minister of Defence Morten Bødskov has accused President Putin of trying to bring Europe back to before the fall of the Berlin Wall. In a speech to the Atlantic Council, an American think…

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Posted on 02. Sep, 2022 in: News

Voters against headscarf ban

A significant majority of voters would oppose any move to ban young Muslim girls from wearing headscarves at school, as suggested by a government-appointed commission last week. Although Integration Minister Kaare Dybvad Bek…

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Posted on 02. Sep, 2022 in: News

Controversial nuclear plant near Copenhagen could be fired up again

17 years after Sweden was forced to shut down its Barsebäck nuclear plant situated just across the water from Denmark after years of pressure from Copenhagen, the Swedish Christian Democrats have called for…

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Posted on 02. Sep, 2022 in: News

Companies are confident

Despite fast rising retail prices and low consumer confidence, producers remain optimistic. The latest Statistics Denmark figures show manufacturing confidence has improved for the first time in four months, as companies believe increases…

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Posted on 02. Sep, 2022 in: News

Business shorts

Housing market downturn….90,000 Danske Bank customers have debt wiped out…Record year for private pension savings…. The Finance Ministry expects the housing market to experience a significant downturn next year as prices head south….

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Posted on 01. Sep, 2022 in: News

Foreign Ministry report pinpoints main security threats

A yet-to-be-published Foreign Ministry report pinpoints the six major security threats to Denmark over the next decade. Even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Social Democrat-led government assembled a working group at the…

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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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