The cap on social benefits imposed at the start of the month will force the unemployed to move to deprived areas of the country where there’s cheaper accommodation but more social problems, a…

Six local authorities will give the unemployed a helping hand help to pay their rent. After a new survey showing a 13% increase in social housing occupants who have failed to pay their…

The EU has appointed Niels Thygesen, a professor of International Economics at the University of Copenhagen, as head of the European Fiscal Board. Mr Thygesen who will head up the five-member independent body designed to…

Denmark tops the 2016 World Energy Council (WEC) Energy Index, followed by Switzerland and Sweden, and also achieves the highest score for energy security. The WEC bases bases its definition of energy sustainability…

APM in Italian partnership /  Discount flights boost tourism sector /  Airport gets ‘stable’ rating APM: Container terminal operator APM Terminals has partnered up with COSCO Shipping Ports and Qingdao Port International Development to operate…

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has initially agreed to pay back DKK 200,000 (€26,000) to the EU Parliament but the figure could rise to over a million kroner. All EU-related accounts from the…

Danish People’s Party (DPP) MEP Morten Messerschmidt has been thrown out of the party’s leadership group – ‘the coordination committee’ – after being linked to a series of allegations of fraud with EU…

Around half of all criminal foreign nationals facing deportation have refused to be moved to a temporary holding center in Jutland. 69 foreigners convicted of serious crime have been granted ‘limited residency’ because…

The opposition has accused Housing Minister Inger Støjberg of a ’major U-turn’ for claiming that welfare recipients hit by the government’s new benefits cap have had enough time to look for cheaper accommodation…

A total of 40 public sector employees in the greater Copenhagen region have now been suspended on suspicion of receiving kickbacks from Atea, the leading supplier of IT infrastructure and system integration to…