Svend Auken

In memory of the Danish politician Svend Auken

Danish Racism

An Open Letter to Barack Obama:

On Danish Racism

by Jacob Holdt and Rune Engelbreth Larsen

http://www.panhumanism.com/letter_to_obama.php

I am a Dane, and I can confirm, that all the quotations in this video are translated correctly.

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Minister: Danish People's Party in cabinet?

Denmark "Technology King"

The US has lost its position as the world's primary engine of technology innovation, according to a report by the World Economic Forum.

The US is now ranked seventh in the body's league table measuring the impact of technology on the development of nations. A deterioration of the political and regulatory environment in the US prompted the fall, the report said. The top spot went for the first time to Denmark, followed by Sweden.

more: BBC News

Carbon-energy taxation

When taxes are introduced on energy and CO₂ emissions, and the income is used to reduce other taxes, a positive effect is achieved both for the environment and for the economy. Economists from Cambridge Econometrics have, in an EU research project coordinated by the National Environmental Research Institute, University of Aarhus, shown that the ’double dividend’ theory can no longer be rejected in practice. In five EU countries, CO₂ and energy taxation over the last 17 years has made a small but positive contribution to economic growth of up to 0.5 per cent, at the same time as CO₂ emissions have been reduced.

more: NERI

Copenhagen hit by riots

A police operation to evict squatters from a building in Denmark's capital triggered a major riot.

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