The Public Prosecutor will not be appealing the 21-month jail sentence handed down to Danish-Palestinian poet Yahya Hassan by an Aarhus Court last week. Hassan was found guilty of shooting and injuring a 17-year-old…

The Danish shipping industry is lobbying strongly for the proposed free trade agreement between the EU and USA. The US market is the second-biggest for Danish shippers, after China, providing revenue of around…

Negative interest rates, which have fueled the housing boom and raised fears of a bubble, may not be as punishing for mortgage lenders as previously assumed according to the CEO of the Danish…

New data shows immigrants are overrepresented in the crime statistics. Belarus and Georgia nationals top the list of foreigners charged with crime but it’s immigrants from three North African countries – Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia – who dominate….

Muslim girls who refuse to remove their headwear at school should be denied teaching, the leader of the New Conservatives said in a TV interview, Sunday. Pernille Vermlund said if her party is…

Only 5,040 people have applied for asylum so far this year, far fewer than the government’s own projection. Only 54 migrants arrived last week, the latest immigration figures show, the tenth week in…

The Social Liberals have urged Justice Minister Søren Pind to take action against the nationalist, anti-immigrant Danes Party, whose leader stood on a street corner in Jutland, Saturday, handing out ‘asylum spray’ to…

Leading business sector figures fear the tax dispute, which has split the centre-right alliance, could spark off an election and pave the way for the ‘red’ opposition to return to power. In an…

The UN’s ability to act is over-exaggerated, according Anders Fogh Rasmussen who in a new book published today urges the USA to become the ‘world’s policeman’. In the ‘The Will to Lead’ the…

Denmark has urged the UN to transform its ambitious agendas on sustainable development and climate change into “real change” that benefits all people. Following Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s message to outgoing UN…