ISS wins multi-million deal at JFK airport / G4S loses prisoner tagging contract/ Lundbeck extends alzheimer drug development with Japanese partner ISS Danish Facility Services company ISS has won a multi-million contract to…

A planned minor cabinet re-shuffle turned into a major turnaround yesterday after Villy Søvndal (SPP) resigned as Foreign Minister. According to Berlingske he’ll be replaced by Tax Minister Holger. K. Nielsen (SPP) as…

Villy Søvndal resigned as Foreign Minister yesterday, citing health concerns. The ex-SPP leader was hospitalised in October after suffering a blood clot in the heart and later took a sabbatical after his wife…

Social Minister Anette Vilhelmsen is to be given a reprimand for her role in the ’Zornig Huset’ affair but will keep her job after being thrown a safety line by the Red/Greens who…

The Socialist People’s Party’s (SPP) downslide continues. Just as party leader Anette Vilhelmsen was being given a reprimand by parliament yesterday, and her predecessor, Villy Søvndal was announcing his resignation as Foreign Minister,…

The cabinet re-shuffle doesn’t mask the political reality for the Social Democrats – they continue to lose voters while the Liberals’ comeback rolls on. When Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt presents her new team…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has defended her controversial ‘selfie’ that went round the world yesterday. The Danish PM has been widely ridiculed for laughing and grinning while posing for a ‘selfie’ with US…

NATO has extended Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s contract again, this time by just two months, so he can preside over the NATO summit planned in South Wales, UK, in September next year. The…

The Danish National Bank has become slightly more optimistic in its projection for economic growth this year but remains generally pessimistic long-term. It now predicts GDP growth of 0.4% this year, 0.1 percentage…

Justice Minister Morten Bødskov resigned yesterday after admitting to a parliamentary consultation that he had given misleading information in the Christiania / Pia Kjærsgaard affair. The Minister’s position became untenable after the government’s…