Christmas Reception
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The Opening to Cuba: The impact on foreign U.S. subsidiaries
The American-Danish Business Council invited Dr. Wayne Smith, former chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy, and Robert Muse, an attorney with more than 25 years of experience on U.S.-Cuban commercial issues, to discuss the impact of President Obama’s normalization of relations with Cuba. Dr.…
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Blue Community Conference and Workshop on Water Management Practices
On June 3rd 2015, The National Building Museum, the Embassy of Denmark and the Confederation of Danish Industry organized a workshop and conference on Blue Urbanism: Rethinking Rain in connection with the exhibition HOT TO COLD: an odyssey of architectural adaption. The workshop included a short presentation by five speakers, all working closely with…
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Path to Sustainability: Tour to Denmark
The American-Danish Business Council partnered with the Wirth Chair for Sustainable Development at the University of Colorado at Denver to take a small group of sixteen to Denmark to investigate ways Danes are developing solutions to deal with Climate Change and the transition to a sustainable green economy. The group began the tour in Copenhagen…
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Honorary Consul Meeting in Washington DC, June 4-5th 2015
On June 4-5th 2015, the honorary consuls of Denmark in the United States gathered for their bi-annual meeting at the Embassy in Washington DC. The two-day meeting was arranged as an opportunity for the consuls located all over the U.S. to come together for updates from the consular section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as…
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King & Spalding receives the 2015 Award of Excellence in International Trade by Chambers USA
It is with great pleasure that the American-Danish Business Council congratulates King & Spalding’s international team on receiving the Chambers USA Award of Excellence for the third time since 2009. During a ceremony by Chambers USA on May 19th, King & Spalding’s international trade practices received an Award of Excellence as an recognition of work…
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The new Food Safety Modernization Act is ready for publishing this year
For the first time in 70 years the FDA is reforming their food safety laws. During the next 12 months, 7 new food safety laws, that have been under way for the last 4 years, will be published. The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) that was signed into law by President Obama on Jan. 4th…
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Eksportguiden.dk – one way to all public export programs
In order to coordinate the export promotion offers for Danish companies, the website Eksportguiden.dk (Hyperlink) was launched on May 18th, 2015. The export promotion guide is part of the export promotion and economic diplomacy strategy imposed by the Danish government in May 2014. The concept behind Eksportguiden.dk is to give Danish companies an overview of all…
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Greetings from the Ambassador
This weekend, as part of our outreach to the Washingtonians, we opened the doors to our Embassy and welcomed a record number of visitors to our EU Open House. Almost 6,000 people walked up Whitehaven Street and visited the Embassy of Denmark. Many had their picture taken with the Viking while others, when asked to…
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Record number of visitors at EU open House!
On May 9th, 2015 all 28 European Union Embassies and the EU Delegation to the United States opened their doors to the public for the annual EU Open House. This year the Embassy of Denmark had the pleasure of welcoming a record number of visitors to the Embassy. Almost 5,900 visitors climbed the Whitehaven Street…
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Denmark is ranked the best country in the world to do business!
According to an analysis by Forbes from December 2014, Denmark is ranked as the Best Country for Business out of 146 economies around the world. Forbes determined the Best Countries for Business by rating 146 economies on 11 different factors: corruption, property rights, technology, innovation, taxes, freedom (personal, trade and monetary), red tape, investor protection and…