Thulesen Dahl: I have no prime minister ambitions
Popular Danish People’s Party (DPP) leader Krisian Thulesen Dahl has dismissed speculation that he could become the centre-right’s candidate for prime minister at the next election, despite a new Gallup survey showing him…
MoreSocialist leader flirts with DPP
The Socialist People’s Party (SPP) will no longer fight to keep its traditional political enemy, the Danish People’s Party (DPP), away from political influence. Exactly 100 days after being elected SPP leader, Pia…
MoreGrey gold
One in three of all people in this country over the age of 64 are kroner millionaires – on paper. A new report by the The Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Interior…
MoreImmigrants provide boost for service industry
The service industry in this country is now so dominated by foreign workers that many hotels and restaurants would be forced to close down if they were reliant on Danish employees. A new…
MoreThe Week That Was, May 19th – May 25th, 2014
Politics/Economy Under-fire leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen was given a unanimous show of support by the Liberals’ executive committee at a crisis meeting in Copenhagen after yet another expenses controversy – tabloid daily Ekstra…
MoreVoters want to keep EU opt-outs
Danish voters are reluctant to shed Denmark’s EU opt-outs on justice and military policy. While a cross-party majority in parliament would like to see Denmark become a more active participant in EU affairs,…
MorePM to DPP: Welfare opt-out would threaten EU membership
With just two days to go to the EU election, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has lashed out at the Danish People’s Party’s (DPP) demand for a new EU opt-out, on welfare, that would…
More’Bacon election’ in Sweden as Danish pork dominates EU campaign
Meat imports from Denmark have, surprisingly, become a dominant EU campaign issue in Sweden where a growing number of Swedish food stores have boycotted the sale of Danish pork due to animal welfare…
MoreDenmark in competiveness top ten
Denmark has risen three places and has now joined the top-10 of the world’s most competitive countries. The World Competitiveness Yearbook, published annually by top-ranked business school IMD, ranks Denmark at no.9 and…
MoreDenmark puts a hold on Mali aid
Denmark has put a hold its aid commitment to Mali after it emerged that the Malian government has spent $40m on a private jet for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and issued a $200-million…
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