Denmark’s Minister for Trade and Investment, Mrs. Pia Olsen Dyhr, has agreed with her Japanese counterpart, Mr. Yukio Edano, Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry, that the EU and Japan should aim at quickly finalizing the scoping of an EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement.
The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, is hosting an international conference on Somalia on 23 February 2012 in London. Denmark’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Villy Søvndal, has been invited to attend to contribute to the political process in Somalia. Security, stability and piracy will also be discussed at the conference, and Denmark’s Minister for Development Cooperation, Mr. Christian Friis Bach, will attend the conference to discuss humanitarian issues.
Denmark has just been ranked as the second best country in the EU in terms of innovation and research.
The Danish Presidency calls on the EU and its Member States to increase humanitarian and development funding to avoid a severe food security crisis in the Sahel-region. We cannot accept famines and large-scale nutrition emergencies in the 21st century.
On Wednesday February 1 the Embassy of Denmark in Accra signed the fifth phase of the support to the Health sector at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana’s premier health institution.
The old interns says goodbye and the new says hello
Deadline for proposals: 15th February 2012 at 3pm local time
Danish healthcare company Novo Nordisk has been judged the unofficial world leader in sustainability.
Please note: The deadline for submission of papers is 1. February 2012. The authors of the three best papers will have the opportunity to discuss their papers with the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs and the winner will also receive the prize of 30.000 DKK.
Today the Minister for European Affairs Nicolai Wammen attended the debate on Hungary in the European Parliament on behalf of the Council of the EU.