The Danish state’s electronic surveillance of domestic telephone calls without warrants violates the right to privacy. That’s the claim lodged by liberal think-tank Justitia just as a parliamentary majority is preparing to limit telecom…

Ebola windfall for Bavarian / Dankort purchases up / National Bank cuts interest rate Bavarian: Danish biotech company Bavarian Nordic is facing a multi-million windfall after announcing plans to accelerate its collaboration with…

In a public show of support for Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, five leading social democrats have joined together to form the ‘ultra loyals’, an alliance aimed at putting a stop to the criticism…

The fight against the Islamic State (IS) mustn’t be allowed to develop into a new war, Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard warned yesterday after the jihadist organisation released another video showing the execution of…

Opposition parties are demanding that a controversial mosque suspected of being accused of being a recruitment centre for Islamists be closed down. After Fadi Abdallah, spokesman for the Grimhøjvej mosque in Aarhus refused to…

Coalition partner, the Social Liberals (R), have distanced themselves from an opposition proposal to seize the passports of Danish Muslims who travel abroad to fight in holy wars. The party’s justice spokesman, Jeppe…

Ex-Social Liberal leader Margrethe Vestager is in the running to become vice president of the EU Commission, according to the influential Financial Times. The paper claims that new president, Jean-Claude Juncker, is planning…

Denmark has moved up two places, to no.13, on the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness index 2014 but remains last in the Nordic region. It’s the first time in three years that Denmark…

Six human rights and media organisations have requested a meeting with Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard today to discuss Danish–Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who’s reportedly close to death from a new hunger…

Even though Danish defence spending is far less than NATO’s recommended 2 per cent of GDP, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has praised Denmark’s commitment to the alliance. Ahead of the alliance’s summit…