Posted on 28. Jul, 2021 in: News

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…

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Posted on 28. Jul, 2021 in: News

Danske 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’,…

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Posted on 28. Jul, 2021 in: News

Homeowners 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…

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Posted on 27. Jul, 2021 in: News

Left 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…

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Posted on 27. Jul, 2021 in: News

Virus 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…

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Posted on 27. Jul, 2021 in: News

More 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…

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Posted on 27. Jul, 2021 in: News

City 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…

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Posted on 27. Jul, 2021 in: News

Denmark 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…

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Posted on 27. Jul, 2021 in: News

Italian 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,…

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Posted on 26. Jul, 2021 in: News

Embassy 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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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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