Lene Espersen has been dropped as the Conservatives’ foreign affairs spokesperson. The acting Foreign Minster has been moved sideways in a re-shuffle of the party’s spokespersons, to EU affairs, while former Foreign Minister,…

As expected, the four parties on the left have used their majority to appoint former Social Democrat leader Mogens Lykkefort as the new Speaker of the House, despite opposition from the Liberal Party…

Admiral Lord West, a former cabinet minister in the British government, has apologised to Denmark, and Belgium, for referring to them as ‘second-rate nations’ (http://seven59.dk/danish-military-second-rate-says-british-admiral). In a written apology to the Ambassadors of…

If the election campaign had lasted another ten days it could have turned into an even tighter race. The first post-election opinion poll, by Voxmeter for news agency Ritzau, gives the former government…

A top foreign diplomat stationed in this country has been accused of theft. According to the Baghdad news agency Aswat al-Iraq, the Iraqi parliament has issued an arrest warrant against Mr Faris Shaker…

Local farmers in Bangladesh are being sustained in a cycle of poverty by a combination of the EU’s agricultural aid policy and Danish/Swedish dairy giant Arla’s export of milk powder – the conclusion…

The poor state of the economy and the DKK3,000 fee imposed on immigration applications in this country don’t seem to have scared off highly skilled immigrants. New figures show a slight, but constant…

Scotland is the fourth country to challenge Denmark for the rights to the continental shelf under the small, uninhabited, rocky islet of Rockall in the North Atlantic Ocean. The governments of Ireland, Iceland,…

Dark clouds continue to hover over Danish production companies. In a new survey by DI, The Confederation of Danish Industries, one-third of all CEO’s expect a least 7,000 people to be fired before…

Drug pushers in Christiania could easily finance the DKK75m that residents need to buy the free state from the Danish state, according to Professor Caspar Rose of Copenhagen Business School. Christiania celebrated its…