Unforeseen life-long incapacity benefits have cost the state an extra DKK47bn since politicians reformed early retirement legislation in 2003. 240,000 people in Denmark live off incapacity benefits today, including a record 17,100 who…

An increasing number of refugees and immigrants have accepted the government’s offer of a cash bonus to leave Denmark. During the first ten months of this year, 332 people returned home to their…

Denmark is to offer Ireland a multi-billion kroner loan. After attending a hastily-called EU meeting in Brussels, Minister of Finance Claus Hjorth Frederiksen said that Denmark is prepared to offer €400m – around…

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has urged all parties at Christiansborg to join the fight against the EU’s attempt to influence immigration legislation. In response to news that Turkey’s Association Agreement with the…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has been urged not to attend the COP16 Climate Conference in Mexico. Although leading Social Democrats have put pressure on the PM to travel to Mexico, the party’s…

Experts agree that it was Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen (L) who emerged as the big loser from last night’s debate between the Social Democrats’ Helle Thorning-Schmidt and the Danish People’s Party’s (DPP)…

The tiny Liberal Alliance will present two parliamentary motions before Christmas aimed at ‘weeding the thorns out of anti-terror legislation’ and amending the minimum penalty for carrying a knife. The party’s spokesman on…

40 centimetres of snow and 20 degrees of frost – that’s what parts of Denmark are looking forward to this weekend. Fortunately for residents of the Copenhagen area, it’s North and East Jutland…

The US authorities have warned Denmark about the possibility of damaging leaks from website Wikileaks. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed last night that there have been high-level discussions between the two countries,…

Immigration, naturally, and welfare dominated the agenda when Danish People’s Party leader Pia Kjærsgaard and her Social Democrat counterpart Helle Thorning-Schmidt clashed for a US style TV debate last night. Ms Thorning-Schmidt constantly…