Social Democrat spokesman Ole Hækkerup characterised the group of 60-70 immigrant gang members who stormed Odense Hospital Monday evening and threatened nurses and doctors as a flock of ‘poorly integrated idiots’.  He called…

The Liberals’ former integration minister, Søren Pind, has blamed the government’s ‘soft’ immigration policy for the Vollsmose disturbances and Monday night’s gang-attack on an Odense hospital. He said the government has sent a…

Police still have no leads as to who threw a chemical bomb that exploded close to children and carers at an Ikast playground last week, the third such incident in two years. Ikast…

Denmark’s economic ‘elite’ – the richest one per cent of the population who earn over a million kroner annually – are a goldmine for the Danish state. A new report by the right-leaning…

The Red/Green Alliance has asked the ruling Social Democrats if they are prepared to live up to their campaign promise to reduce inequality in society. In response to three Social Democrat cabinet ministers…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt will visit China in September to reciprocate for President Hu Jintao’s trip to Denmark in June. According to the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the PM will head a…

Lars Rohde, CEO of Denmark’s biggest pension fund, ATP, has been appointed governor of the Danish National Bank and will succeed Lars Bernstein, scheduled to retire at the end of January 2013. According…

International news agency Reuters reports that Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk has raised DKK5.6bn (€750 m) from an oversubscribed offering of a new seven-year bond. Group finance chief Jan Kjaervik said: “This…

East European workers have managed to defy the economic crisis and find jobs in this country. New National Labour Market Authority Figures show that although unemployment figures have risen rapidly since 2008, 20,713…

The number of young people living off welfare handouts continues to grow. Since 2008, the number of young adults between 16 and 29 claiming social benefits has tripled, while 8,000 are now categorised…