Denmark 2025 €132.16 billion and Ireland 2025 €38.86 billion: Shipments to the United Staes were at a poor €3 billion

Denmark 2025 

Denmark’s international export sector achieved exceptional milestones, with total annual exports climbing to a record high of $148.1 billion USD.(€132.16 billion).

Native Danish corporations capitalised heavily on foreign demand, resulting in an overall global trade surplus of approximately $12.6 billion USD.

The primary engine of this growth has been the pharmaceutical sector, particularly driven by massive foreign production and global sales from Danish-owned affiliates. However, a major macro trend is a shift toward a more diversified export portfolio, with non-pharmaceutical manufacturing, clean tech, and global shipping playing key foundational roles.

Top Danish Entities Driving Overseas Sales

Danish trade is highly consolidated, with the ten largest native enterprise groups representing nearly half of all direct investments and corporate footprints abroad.

Novo Nordisk

The undisputed heavyweight of the Danish economy. Its blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss treatments propelled pharmaceutical exports to $24.75 billion USD, representing 16.5% of Denmark's total trade.

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A.P. Møller – Mærsk

A global leader in ocean logistics. Maritime shipping stands as Denmark's largest individual service export sector, accounting for roughly 24% of the country's total export industry value.

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Vestas Wind Systems

Spearheading Denmark's green technology outreach. Vestas anchored Denmark's $19.03 billion industrial machinery export sector and ranked 3rd globally on the Corporate Knights sustainability index.

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Arla Foods

The dominant force in Denmark's high-value agricultural export trade. Arla continues to lead massive overseas dairy shipments (specifically cheese and specialised milk powders) to regional and global markets.

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DSV

A key multinational transport and logistics provider that facilitates supply chain routing and global transport networks for both Danish and international corporations. 

Apartheid Regime: Israel not a functioning Democracy according to B'Tselem- More than 130,000 Palestinian demolitions since 1948

The Ottoman Empire lasted almost 600 years, from the early 1300s until the aftermath of the First World War. The word Ottoman derives from the Arabic version of Osman – the name of its first ruler 

The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, continued the eastern part of the Roman Empire, centred on Constantinople, during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. 

After surviving the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, it endured until the Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople in 1453. 

The term 'Byzantine Empire' was coined only after its demise; its citizens used the term 'Roman Empire' and called themselves 'Romans'

The term "Sick Man of Europe" originally referred to the Ottoman Empire in the mid-19th century, a moniker commonly attributed to Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.

In the 1880s, this crisis deepened due to severe financial collapse, territorial losses in the Balkans, and rising European imperialism.

Pax Europaea: The longest period of continuous peace in Western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD

 

In 1958, Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman became the first President 

of the European Parliamentary Assembly (later the European Parliament) 

In 1950, the Schuman Declaration proposed a joint coal and steel authority between France and West Germany, helping avert future conflict and leading to the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). 

Schuman, the French Foreign Minister, with his colleague Jean Monnet, a member of the French government, made history. 

From left to right, Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman in Luxembourg, 1953

The Six Founding Countries

France
West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany)
Italy
The Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg

France: Robert Schuman (Foreign Minister who proposed the plan) and Jean Monnet (political-economic adviser and architect of the plan).
West Germany: Konrad Adenauer (first Chancellor of West Germany).
Italy: Alcide De Gasperi (Prime Minister and Foreign Minister).
Belgium: Paul-Henri Spaak (Prime Minister and prominent diplomat).
The Netherlands: Johan Willem Beyen (Foreign Minister) and Sicco Mansholt (agricultural policy planner).
Luxembourg: Joseph Bech (Prime Minister and Foreign Minister).

Ireland at $512 billion is the 5th-largest investor in US but I'ts a lie: Tax Havens / "Phantom Exports"

 

The $512 billion and €38.96 billion figures can't both be correct. 

The cumulative national Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is compared to the annual exports of a specific agency's client companies, but those exports are "Phantom Exports."  

Just because a company founded in Ireland in 1970 (CRH) retained its original name doesn't mean it will always be Irish. CRH is an American firm!  

The Difference Between the Two Figures is that Most of the Big number is fake.    

Metric	Amount	Scope	What it Measures
Total Cumulative FDI	$512 Billion	All Irish entities in the US	The total historical value of investments, acquisitions, and operations built up over decades by all Irish companies (like CRH, Kerry Group, and Smurfit WestRock) in the US market.
Enterprise Ireland  Exports	~€38.9 Billion	Enterprise Ireland clients globally	The value of goods and services sold internationally in a single year only by companies supported by the government agency Enterprise Ireland.

Ireland is among the IMF's Top Tax Havens, driven by corporate profits

CRH plc was formed on October 20, 1970, through the merger of two prominent Irish building materials companies: Cement Limited (established in 1936) and Roadstone Limited (established in 1949).

Smurfit was founded in 1934 as a small box-making business in Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland..

Acquired by Jefferson Smurfit in 1938, it quickly grew into a dynamic and forward-looking business, becoming one of Ireland’s leading manufacturers and listed on the Irish Stock Exchange in 1964. 

The company started operations in Dublin, producing cardboard boxes and packaging for the local Irish market.

In 2001, Chairman and CEO Michael Smurfit resisted shareholder pressure to resign or diversify the heavily family-led board during the share price slump.

Smurfit Kappa was formed through the 2005 merger of Ireland's Jefferson Smurfit Group and Netherlands-based Kappa Packaging.

In 2024, WestRock acquired Smurfit Kappa to be the second-leading global paper and packaging company in the U.S. 

America's 250th Anniversary: The Good and the Bad

Columbus’s expeditions opened a long-lasting Atlantic world that linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas. They spurred plantation slavery, transferred crops like maize, potatoes, and cacao to Europe, and introduced horses, cattle, and disease to the Western Hemisphere. Culturally and politically, his memory animates histories, maps, monuments, and disputes. Some observers credit him with initiating modern globalisation; others view his career as a catastrophe for Indigenous peoples. Debates over Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day show how his name anchors conversations about colonial expansion, memory

Norse Vikings, led by Leif Erikson, landed in Newfoundland (in modern-day Canada) around 1000 CE (Common Era).

A study published in the journal Nature provided precise scientific proof that Vikings were active in North America in the year 1021 AD—exactly 471 years before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492.

​The Site: The evidence comes from L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada. Discovered in 1960, this is the only confirmed Norse settlement site in North America.

Christopher Columbus (1492) [1451-1506]

Who: Italian explorer Cristoforo Colombo, sailing for Spain.
Where: He landed on an island in the Bahamas (and later Cuba and Hispaniola). He met the local Guanahani native inhabitants. He wanted to find a direct western sea route to India, China (Cathay), and the broader East Indies to bypass Ottoman-controlled land routes and trade directly for valuable spices, gold, and silk.
He believed he had reached the "Indies" (the regions of South and East Asia, including India and China), and he called the natives Indinians. Until the 196Os Native Americans were called Indians. 
Outcome: This voyage marked the start of permanent European contact, exploration, and colonisation across the Americas.
16th Century (c. 1550–1580s): Navigators began mounting compass bowls on gimbals (free-swinging hinged rings). This kept the compass level despite the rolling motion of a ship.