The world’s largest sperm bank, Cryos,  based in Aarhus in Jutland, Denmark, is considering a move abroad. The reason? From January 1st, 2012, sales tax, (moms), will be charged on sperm, meaning a 25%…

The Danish Health Minister has rejected the idea of copying Australia’s new tough approach to ensure all children are vaccinated. From next July, authorities in Australia will be empowered to stop child support…

The Conservatives have dismissed a Socialist People’s Party’s (SPP) claim that a person who receives DKK 15,728 (USD2,800) per month in social benefit is living on the poverty line. As proof that there’s…

Widespread pessimism has gripped Denmark. The European debt crisis and constantly falling housing prices, coupled with the unwillingness of consumers and companies to spend or invest has, according to economists and business leaders,…

The chances of earning a high wage are greater in Denmark than in the USA. According to one of the country’s leading experts, Professor Niels Westergård-Nielsen of Aarhus University, part of a research…

The government has backed down and postponed its controversial environment duty that would have cost the Aalborg Portland cement company alone DKK40m pa next year. Tax Minister Thor Möger Pedersen said the business…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt will launch four working groups today headed by key ministers, a ‘roll your sleeves up’ initiative aimed at transforming the government’s ambitions into concrete policy. The groups will be…

The Social Democrats and Socialist People’s Party (SPP), who for ten years in opposition fought price increases for collective traffic, have announced…. price increases for collective traffic. Monthly travel cards, discount punch cards,…

The Danish People’s Party will present a new bill, Tuesday, demanding more jail time for convicted paedophiles. In the wake of the so-called ‘Esbjerg affair’, when a family father was given just seven years in…

Economy and Interior Minister Margrethe Vestager downplayed the significance of  her meeting with other non eurozone members, Monday,  even though it was the third such get-togetherheld recently. Ms Vestager  said ‘it wasn’t formal, there was no agenda,…