Health professionals have distanced themselves from a government proposal that would allow the police to examine a patient’s confidential medical records without a court warrant. The proposal has been warmly welcomed by the…

Toy giant LEGO, one of Denmark’s biggest export successes ever, wilfully plays down its Danish heritage abroad. According to management, the Danish flag doesn’t help sales and it’s better to let children and…

Struggling Scandinavian airline SAS has reported its first full-year profit since 2007, thanks to lower costs and despite the increasing pressure on flight ticket prices From Yahoo.com The net profit of DKK178 m…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has called for an EU-wide condemnation of the violence in Ukraine. She said it’s unacceptable that peaceful demonstrators are under attack from the police and Europe needs to stand…

The proposed pan-EU Banking Union will offer more protection to taxpayers and small savers, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt claimed yesterday, rejecting at the same time the need for a new referendum to decide…

For the first time since 2007, two parties will vote no to the budget presented by the government in parliament today. Although it’s normal protocol for all ‘responsible parties’ to support the budget…

The number of asylum seekers arriving in this country is at a 10-year high. 6,210 refugees had applied for asylum up until the end of October and the National Police estimate that the…

Somali immigrants are far more involved in criminality than ethnic Danes or nationals from other countries. New Justice Department figures show that Somali residents were convicted ten times as much as Danes in…

A number of prominent militant islamists from Denmark who’ve previously fought alongside insurgents in Syria have, according to Politiken, returned to the warzone. The notorious ‘AS’, a Syrian-Dane and alleged gang-leader in the…

Former tax minister Troels Lund Poulsen continued to maintain his innocence during the final round of the Taxgate Commission’s hearings, Wednesday. Mr Poulsen, suspected of trying to influence the tax department’s ruling that…