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BUILDING PERMITS In decentralised Denmark, if you want to carry out a building project, you have to pay a fee to the local authority in or...

DANISH AGRICULTURE (6) Danish agriculture is beginning to make money again ; but not enough to be able to reduce its collective debts. Des...

SYRIA (5) To use a film analogy, Syria is looking increasingly like the third episode of the franchise Ill-Judged Foreign Intervention, fo...

A TALE OF TWO CHERRY TREES The autumn before last , I finished off my new lawn by planting two cherry trees which I bought from my cherry ...

TAX TRUST If you have the highest tax take of any country in the world, as Denmark does , then it makes sense to have a tax authority that...

THE LITTLE MERMAID Today is exactly 100 years since the statue the Little Mermaid was erected in Copenhagen harbour. I have to say that ...

VESTAS Vestas used to be a bit like Nokia; a Scandinavian champion that was the world's leading company in a sector, wind power, that ...