The European Commission has stopped the 2016 proposed increase in taxation of electric cars. In October, the Danish government announced its intention to phase out tax and duty exemptions on electric cars, starting…

The new integration benefits will mean that every third refugee most likely won’t be able to afford three meals a day and poverty in Denmark will increase overall, according to the just-published annual report…

A record number of people have applied for help from charitable organisations this Christmas The Salvation Army has received 11,914 applications for food hampers, the highest number ever, while Danish People’s Aid started…

Eight big names dominate the Tax Ministry’s annual ‘open list’ of how much corporate tax companies pay in Denmark. The eight companies, collectively, paid DKK 18bn in 2014, a third of all corporate…

Russia needs Denmark’s approval to expand its Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline beneath the Baltic Sea and into Germany but Baltic nations have warned the project will be devastating for Ukraine and damaging to European energy security as…

325,000 pensioners are facing a cash shortfall next month when their housing benefit is reduced, even though the controversial ruling was removed from the 2016 budget, Tuesday. Finance Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen (Lib)…

Denmark’s greenhouse gas emissions will hit the 40 per cent reduction target by 2020, compared to 1990, a new forecast from the Danish Energy Agency (Energistrylesen) shows. The expectations are higher than last…

Two Greek businessmen who joked about having a bomb at Copenhagen Airport last month are to be deported. A court sentenced the two men to three months each in prison yesterday — two…

Parties in the Slesvig-Holsten state parliament will vote on three resolutions today formally criticising Denmark’s ‘carrier’ legislation that requires all transport companies crossing the border with Germany  to check the papers of every…

Inflation will remain very low in 2016 Danish inflation declined again in November, mainly due to the global drop in the price of oil – and even though oil is expected to increase…