After months of negotiations, a broad, cross-party majority has finally reached agreement on social benefit reform. Employment Minister Mette Frederiksen called it an ‘extremely important reform’ that would affect thousands of adults, many,…

Employer organisations dismissed the benefit reform agreement as insufficient – for the majority of claimants there’s still no incentive to look for work. Laurits Rønn, head of the Danish Chamber of Commerce, said…

In response to growing political opposition to the new public information bill, aimed at limiting the public’s access to ministerial correspondence, Justice Minister Morten Bødskov has fired off a letter to his fellow…

In a new book destined to stir up the integration debate yet again, renowned Islam critic Lars Hedegaard urges Denmark to either put a stop to immigration from Muslim countries or abolish the…

The number of foreign students coming to Denmark from EU countries has virtually tripled over the past decade. New Education Ministry figures show that in 2002 there were just 6,200 students in higher…

15,000 new cars were sold in March, 9 per cent up on the same month in 2012 which was a record year for auto sales in this country – however, only 27 of…

An SAS plane lost contact with flight control on the way to Birmingham in the UK, Thursday, and was forced to make an unscheduled landing in Scotland, escorted by a British military jet….

Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), the world’s leading independent provider of news, data, research and analysis to the energy sector, has joined the growing number of industry analysts that believe Vestas has been…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning’s Schmidt’s closest political advisor, Noa Reddington, had a serious lapse of memory whilst testifying before the Tax Commission investigating the ‘Taxgate’ affair, Wednesday. After repeatedly claiming that he had…

The opposition parties are demanding deeper cuts in the student grant scheme (SU) and social benefits. As negotiations surrounding the government’s stimulus package proposals reach a decisive phase, the four centre-right parties, led…