An African diplomat in Copenhagen has been accused of raping and assaulting a domestic employee. Josephine Sekre, a 24-year-old woman from the Ivory Coast who was a housekeeper for the unnamed diplomat, claims…

Ahead of this week’s EU summit on youth unemployment, the Danish PM and her Nordic counterparts, Sweden’s Fredrik Reinfeldt and Finland’s Uyri Katainen, have fired off a joint letter to EU President Herman…

The state has suffered a multi-billion kroner loss during the economic crisis. Public sector debt at the end of Q1 this year was DKK131.5bn, new Statistics Denmark figures show, compared to a DKK112.6bn…

Although Copenhagen City Council places tough environmental demands on vehicles in the capital, Mayor Frank Jensen continues to drive around in a polluting, diesel-power vehicle. However, after a new report showing that 67…

Danish shares rose steadily throughout the day on Copenhagen Stock Market, Tuesday, after China’s central bank calmed investors’ nerves by stating it would use tools to safeguard stability in money markets and would…

Recent encouraging opinion polls for the Social Democrats and a couple of political missteps by opposition leader Lars Løkke Rasmuusen have fuelled media speculation about a post-summer political comeback for beleaguered Prime Minister…

A significant majority of voters are against the Liberals’ plan to freeze public sector expenditure. In a new YouGov poll for the trade-union backed news magazine, Ugebrevet A4, 60 per cent say that…

The opposition has ridiculed the government’s ‘erratic’ tax policy after new finance ministry figures showing that 49 duties and taxes have been slashed, by DKK11.6bn, but at the same time 91 have been…

The Red/Green Alliance said yesterday there’s ‘something fishy’ in the 2003 North Sea oil deal agreed between the former Lib/Con government and the consortium headed by A.P. Møller-Maersk (APM). In response to new…

Former Finance Minister Bendt Bendtsen has dismissed left-wing claims that the Danish state has lost up to DKK124bn on the deal he negotiated with the North Sea oil consortium in 2003 as ‘complete…