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Earning their keep Denmark heading for another EU dust up over benefits

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smooth sailing might just want to prepare for the worst, reports Ekstrabladet.

Border controls and road work TWO MAIN reasons for the situation are the newly introduced border checks, and roadwork on the stretch of highway from the

northern part of Autobahn A7 to well past Hamburg. Some predictions say that the 166 km between Flensburg and Hamburg may take up to eight hours to traverse. ADAC recommends that Danes avoid travelling over the weekends in July as traffic will be at its worst then. Other recommendations are to avoid driving during rush hour times and to plan alternative routes over Autobahn A9 instead of Autobahn A7.

Nordea capital bomb

Danish UN sales way up

Busting backhanded banks

NORDEA has underestimated the amount risk in its corporate lending to the tune of some 30 – 60 billion kroner, according to the Swedish newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet. According to the report, the note suggests that if Nordea deliberately underestimated the risk in its lending, there could be a major scandal brewing for the embattled Nordic bank.

DANISH companies selling to the UN organisations such as Unicef, UNDP and WHO have seen a 33 percent increase in sales compared to last year. Danish companies sold for about 3.7 billion kroner to the UN last year and Denmark has now jumped from ninth to seventh in the world in terms of being a UN distributor. The UN’s total procurement budget is at about 113 billion kroner.

THE FINANCIAL supervisory authority Finanstilsynet (FSA), in connection with its ‘Panama Papers’ investigation, is asking eight banks for an explanation of activities that hint at their possible involvement in money laundering and tax evasion. The government told parliament that they are looking to bring anyone found to have violated the law to justice.

OPE FOR the best but definitely prepare for the worst Things are not looking good for the million Danes who are hoping to drive through Germany en route to their European vacation spots this summer. The German motorist organization, ADAC’s, 2016 traffic forecast makes for frightening reading and Danes hoping for

Bottleneck ADAC, which continually monitors the traffic situation on German roads, has warned Danes to factor in more time than they think they’re going to need driving through Germany. “Traffic over the summer will be heavy this year. There are over 500 road work projects currently in progress on major German

Shipping firms reported FIVE INTERNATIONAL shipping companies have recently been reported to the Ministry of Environment and Food for flouting regulations that relate to the levels of sulfur in fuel used by ships. Samples of the fuel used by the companies contained levels of sulfur well in excess of regulations – anywhere from 20 percent in excess of the set limit to nine times over the limit.

roads,” said Diana Sprung, from ADAC’s press office. Combined with the high density of cars seen especially from mid-July to mid-August, ADAC recommend that drivers factor in significantly more drive-time.