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Great TV you should be watching: Borgen.
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I’m not quite finished the first season of Danish political drama “Borgen” (meaning castle or government, apparently) but I can already give it two thumbs up if you’re a political drama fan. When I first heard people rave abou...
VIDEO: Denmark's Fat Tax - Not Working?
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When Denmark's fat tax came into effect last October it was praised by health advocates but a year on it's being hailed as a misadventure. What went wrong, and how will the government fill a hole in its coffers? Our man in Copenhagen, Malcolm Brabant...
Boosting innovation in Denmark
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In Denmark, as elsewhere in financially-strapped, slow-growing Europe, the government is looking to digital technology to encourage innovation and boost the economy without extra spending. Danish Minister of Science, Innovation and higher Education,...
How to kill a bank, Denmark edition
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To all those still defending negative interest rates — arguing that the stimulative effects will outweigh the costs to banks — we bring you the following from Tina...
The ‘natural experiment’ of negative deposits rates in Denmark
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Maybe not truly natural, as this is a matter of currency intervention, but close.After the ECB lowered it’s interest and deposit rates on Thursday, the Danish central bank,...
The Danish presidency: A job well done
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A while ago I wrote a post highlighting the possibility of a succesful Danish presidency of the E.U. So, as the Danes are handing over the wheel to the Cypriots, forgive me for gloating a little over my excellent foresight ;-) While this presidency...
The alternative guide to charming Copenhagen
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If you had not already been told, I'll tell you: Copenhagen is a fantastic place!
Viasat found by Danish NCA to have violated a decision subject to conditions
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"On September 30 2009, the Council decided that Viasat’s business terms regarding the distribution of the TV-channels TV 3 and TV 3+ in cable networks were an infringement of section 6 of the Danish Competition Act and Article 81 of the EC Treaty...
Denmark next country to kowtow to China´s authoritarian communist leaders
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Ordinary people - and media - in the Western countries are so used to their leaders kowtowing to the communist party authoritarians, who run China, that questions about the country´s abysmal human rights record are more or less forgotten. On Th...
Danish minister: Green growth without prophesying
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By Timothy Spence Danish Environment Minister Ida Auken has an ambitious agenda for her country's EU presidency, in...
The Danish Crown Prince and Princess come to the EESC
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This evening, in what has been something of a royal week, we were delighted to welcome the Danish Crown Prince and Princess to the European Economic and Social Committee. They are instinctively shy of the limelight and their aides had insisted on a...
Danish Presidency priorities: presented in EP Committees
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The priorities of Denmark's Presidency of the EU Council of Ministers has been presented to European Parliament committees by Danish ministers this week. According to Trade and Investment Minister Pia Olsen Dyhr, the EU's international trade policy...
Priorities to be presented to EP committees
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Danish ministers present this week the priorities of Denmark's Presidency of the EU Council of Ministers to European Parliament committees. Notably, economic and interior affairs minister Margrethe Vestager underlines the role of the European Parl...
EU Council: Evaluating the Danish presidency programme
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For friends of melodrama we suggest Public Service Europe's take on the Council of the European Union, but let us return to bumbling through the primary sources about the Danish presidency. Our roadmap is the programme presented by the government of...
EU Council presidency of Denmark in the media 2/2
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Jon Worth's earlier as well as his two latest blog posts (here and here) about his press trip to Denmark and the launch of the Danish presidency of the Council of the European Union offer both his personal impressions and references to media. He has...
EU Council presidency of Denmark in the media 1/2
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After a look at media reporting about the Danish presidency of the Council of the European Union, the euroblogger Jon Worth pronounced ”perhaps not stellar, but at least there is some online discussion about the Press Trip and the launch of the Pre...
The launch of the Danish EU presidency: "a very, very sad day for Denmark"
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“This is a very, very sad day for Denmark”. Those were the most memorable words by Danish PM Helle Thorning Schmidt when she together with EU Commission president José Barroso yesterday launched the country´s EU presidency in Copenha...
Where the heck is Transnistria?
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The Danish EU Presidency has a small problem. Its foreign minister Villy Søvndal doesn’t know where is Transnistria, and probably would find it difficult to locate Moldova on a map of Europe. Sixty six Brussels-based journalist witnessed the embar...
The clock is ticking for Sarkozy
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The Danes said they will conduct a low-cost presidency. I think they made a very good point. Showing up in times of crisis is bad taste. But I think the Danes had one more message to deliver: they wanted to send a message to Sarkozy, the bling-bling...
So that was a Presidency Press Trip. I’m feeling rather empty.
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At one level it has been a privilege to attend the Danish Presidency Press Trip for the past four days. I’m the first blogger ever to have been allowed to attend, and hopefully not the last. But the whole experience … Continue reading ...
Why Nick Archer’s blog doesn’t work
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I’m just back from the Presidency Press Trip in Copenhagen. It has resulted in numerous blog entries from me (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), a set on Flickr, and masses of activity on Twitter. The FT blog has a … Continue reading →...
Thorny questions for Denmark and EU Council
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Each EU Council presidency has to confront a number of difficult issues. Denmark is no exception. Here I am going to name but two thorny issues, both relating to the area of freedom, security and justice (AFSJ), or justice and home affairs (JHA). Sch...
EU Commission in Copenhagen
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The entire Commission has been in Denmark to meet with the Danish Government and discuss cooperation over the next six months. Yesterday, we were also invited to the official inauguration of the Presidency, which was celebrated with a concert in the...
