Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt is the favourite to succeed Catherine Ashton as the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, according to leading political commentator Hans Engel who claims the Danish…

A new book by a leading business academic blows the lid of Danes’ view of themselves as industrious, productive, and the ‘best in the world’ at virtually everything. In ‘Average People’, author Morten…

More and more unemployed Danes have become encouraged to apply for menial jobs since the government tightened the entitlement rules for social benefits. The up-market Ruths Hotel in Skagen, which has for years…

Keep hold of the greysters – the state could benefit by around DKK0.5bn annually if the elderly stayed in the labour market instead of retiring. The ‘wise men’ of the Economic Council have…

Cut price airlines that dump wages could trigger off a new round of cutbacks at Scandinavia’s flagship airline, SAS. Discount flyers save hundreds of millions of kroner by ‘creative’ hiring methods such as…

Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen has been recommended to HM Queen Margrethe as the new Permanent Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to succeed Claus Grube who has been…

Housing starts in Denmark are at an all-time low – just 9,500 new properties are planned for this year, compared to 34,600 in 2006. Senior economist Finn Bo Frandsen of the Danish Construction…