Royal yacht answers SOS
The Royal Yacht Dannebrog, with Queen Margrethe on board, came to the rescue of a small boat that was in difficulties in the Øresund Strait between Denmark and Sweden, Tuesday. In addition to…
MoreDanske Bank still struggling to get over money-laundering scandal
Three years after one of the world’s biggest money-laundering scandals Danske Bank is still struggling with the fall-out. Bloomberg News reports how Denmark’s biggest bank, ‘once among the Nordic region’s most reputable companies’,…
MoreHomeowners enjoy EU’s fastest rising prices
Despite early-summer signs that the red-hot housing market could be cooling down, new Statistics Denmark figures reveal record-breaking figures throughout the corona crisis. Homeowners enjoyed a 15.3% price increase in the 12 months between…
MoreLeft wing demands help for Afghanistan employees
Parties on the left have urged the government to evacuate all Afghanistan nationals who’ve been employed by Denmark in the war-torn country. After TV2 reported how local employees at the Danish embassy in Kabul…
MoreVirus updates
Positivity rate up…..Waste water study could provide early warning…. The number of new corona cases rose by 128, Monday, to 772, as the positivity rate of the nearly 60,000 who were tested over…
MoreMore than 1 in 5 Delta infections were already vaccinated
Twenty-two percent of people testing positive for the Delta variant had already been vaccinated, new figures from the National Serum Institute (NSI) show. A test from March 1st to July 13th showed that…
MoreCity Hall faced with multi-million bill for illegal waste demand
Copenhagen City Hall will be forced to provide refunds to thousands of small businesses that paid an unlawful waste management fee after the Supreme Court upheld an earlier High Court decision stating that…
MoreDenmark unprepared for extreme weather
Denmark is increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather events, researchers and business organisations have warned. While the nation is unlikely to experience flooding on a similar scale to that which devastated Northern Germany last…
MoreItalian strike disrupts Copenhagen Airport
Industrial action by Italian air traffic controllers hit travellers flying in and out of Copenhagen Airport, Monday. According to Scandinavian Airlines, SAS, the twelve-hour strike affected between five and six hundred passengers. Altogether,…
MoreEmbassy staff in Kabul fear for their lives
Local employees at Denmark’s embassy in Kabul have accused the Danish government of ‘leaving them in the lurch’ by ignoring their concerns about the growing threat of the Taleban. ‘Ahmed’ (not his real…
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