Denmark officially assumed the rotating EU Presidency on January 1st – or, as it’s officially termed, ‘The Presidency of the Council of the European Union’. The EU banner is now waving from the…

Prime Minster Helle Thorning-Schmidt predicted tough times ahead in her maiden New Year speech to the nation and warned against believing that the crisis would soon be over. She said people are going…

Widespread pessimism could hit the government’s efforts to kick-start the economy. In a new Rambøll poll for Jyllands-Posten, half of all respondents said they believed unemployment will continue to rise in 2012 and…

The economic crisis, Denmark’s EU Presidency, and ‘community values’ were high on the agenda of HM Queen Margrethe’s 40th New Year speech to the nation. She spoke about the global crisis that continues…

Danish soldiers have personally mistreated Iraqi prisoners of war, according to Pprofessor of forensic medicine at the University of Southern Denmark, Jørgen Lange Thomsen, who examined and interviewed five Iraqi prisoners after they…

For the first time, Minister for Climate and Energy Martin Lidegaard has put a figure on the expected costs of turning Denmark ‘green’, as projected in the government’s recently published energy manifesto, ‘Our…

Former defence minister Søren Gade will be forced to take the witness stand in an upcoming torture trial against the Danish state. Christian Harlang, the lawyer for six Iraqi prisoners who’ve sued Denmark…

Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt is compared to a character from the TV series ‘Desperate Housewives’ in The Australian newspaper, which describes her as a ’45-year-old tall, elegant blonde with piercing green-blue eyes,…