Finance Minister Bjarne Corydon will project a hefty deficit of DKK36.5bn when he presents the government’s 2013 budget proposal this morning, but still 50 per cent less than this year due to increased…

By investing millions of kroner in a new test centre for hydro-electric power, Denmark hopes to win lucrative export deals with China to replace lost income from the ailing wind energy sector. Minister…

Nearly one thousand state employees have been fired since the Social Democrat government came to power 10 months ago, the largest number of public sector redundancies since the 1920’s. After winning last year’s…

Civil-rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja has gone on hunger strike again. According to the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, the Danish-Bahrainian national, who only ended a 110-day strike on May 25th, has joined 12…

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has, unsurprisingly, urged the government to tighten immigration and integration policy in the wake of the unrest in Vollsmose. Characterising the government’s policies as ‘incredibly naive’, the party’s…

The Red/Green Alliance has demanded a job guarantee for all those who will drop out of the unemployment insurance scheme in January, either full-time work in the public sector or paid training or…

As the government prepares to present its budget proposals there’s concern that key economic indicators, also to be published next week, will signal more bad news. The prospects for private consumption don’t look…

Minister of Justice Morten Bodskov has praised pub-owner Jane Birgitte Pedersen, who’s become a media darling after refusing to bow down to local gangs. One day after Ms Petersen refused to pay protection…

Confidential documents from oil-giant Shell, obtained by Politiken, reveal that the Danish state hasn’t earned as much from North Sea oil as previously believed since the agreement with the companies behind the Danish…

Slovakia’s Presdent Ivan Gasparovic will make a state visit to Denmark this Autumn, to reciprocate for Queen Margarethe and Prince Henrik’s visit to his own country in 1994. The Royal Court has also…