Section: The Copenhagen Post (Denmark)
Denmark to lead anti-corruption initiative in Ukraine
Denmark has been chosen to lead a 120 million kroner EU project that aims to fight corruption in Ukraine. The foreign minister, Kristian Jensen, will officially present the initiative in Kiev on Friday. “Corruption is a substantial challenge in Ukraine – in the daily lives of both businesses and citizens. Corruption damages the growth potential...
Denmark left out of Russian-led Baltic security talks
Denmark has been excluded from the Baltic countries invited by Russia to September talks on security in the region. NATO has reported that Russia now has a force of over 300,000 troops on its Western borders, along with new airbases, ships and nuclear-capable short-range missiles. In the past two years, Russia has also conducted a large number of...
Rio 2016 rundown: Today’s Olympic action (Day 5)
It was an exciting day in Rio last night as Michael Phelps won gold medals number 20 and 21, while Serena Williams was surprisingly ousted in the women’s tennis. However, it was a fine day for Denmark’s rowers, who all progressed in their respective events, and the Danish men’s handball team kept up their winning ways against...
Danish grain giant sold to the US
The Danish grain and seed firm Cimbria has been sold by the British equity fund Silverfleet Capital to AGCO, the US-based global leader in the design, production and distribution of agricultural machinery. The deal, which is expected to be worth around 2.3 billion kroner, means that Cimbria will get its fourth owner in just ten years. “Thanks to...
Russia extends import ban on Danish food products
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new decree that extends the ban on imports of certain Western food products until the end of 2017. The ban means that a number of Danish food industries, including the struggling pork sector, will continue to forego the huge Russian market for at least another 18 months. The Russian ban came into...
About Town: Kerrying on in Copenhagen
The US secretary of state, John Kerry, was in Denmark on Thursday June 16 as part of an official visit focusing on co-operation in the Arctic region, climate issues, the conflict in Syria against Islamic State (IS), and the situation in Ukraine and trade. Kerry was hosted by the foreign minister, Kristian Jensen and he also managed to meet with...
CPH Post readers at Euro 2016: Beginning to believe again
Dawid Andersen, a Polish recruitment consultant at Work in Denmark, first moved here in 1991, and they have been lean years – well, at least until 2008. “I first noticed him at Lech Poznań,” he says of Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski – their first genuine world-class player since Juventus striker Zibi Boniek in the 1980s – who was...
Poland’s under-fire president coming to Denmark
Ahead of the upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw in July, Polish President Andrzey Duda will pay an official visit to Copenhagen this week on June 9. Duda will meet with the prime minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, and discuss a number of issues within the spectrum of security, energy, trade and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, one of Poland’s...
John Kerry to visit Denmark and Greenland
The US secretary of state, John Kerry, will pay Denmark and Greenland a visit on June 16 and 17. Kerry’s visit will focus on co-operation in the Arctic region, climate issues, the conflict in Syria against Islamic State (IS), the situation in Ukraine and trade. “As we recently had confirmed in Washington during the Nordic-US summit, the...
Aarhus among Lonely Planet’s top European destinations
‘The ‘City of Smiles’ has a lot to grin about these days. In January, TripAdvisor voted Villa Provence the best new hotel in Denmark and a month later the Danish men agreed that the ladies in the city were the fairest in all the land. Now there’s even more for Aarhus residents to get excited about. The city has just been named as one...
