64-year-old Britta Nielsen, charged with embezzling DKK111m from the Danish social authorities, was allowed to withdraw DKK17m in cash from her Danske Bank account between 2005-17 – around DKK109,000 every month with no questions asked…

Speaker of the House Pia Kjærsgaard has denounced the ever-growing political hostility and threats against elected officials on social media and in public. After Social Democrat MP Mattias Tesfaye posted a Facebook message,…

A local Danish politician who’s facing a 6-year prison sentence after being charged with attempted murder and ‘extreme violence’ against his partner and child has been named as René Kauland (V), a town…

Jyske Bank, Denmark’s second largest independent bank, has rewarded its top executives with significant wage hikes despite decreasing profit and a fall in share price. The bank’s financial report for 2018, released Tuesday….

The CEO of Nordea, Scandinavia’s biggest bank, has urged the EU to create a supervisory authority to oversee the bloc’s banking sector and prevent money laundering. Casper von Koskull told financial daily Borsen:…

The government is again divided on income tax. With the election fast approaching, Conservative leader Søren Pape Poulsen has called for the tax threshold on high earners to be raised by DKK120,000, a…

Controversial businessman Klaus Riskær Pedersen’s new political party looks unlikely to win the 2% of votes needed at the upcoming general election to win parliamentary representation. The latest Voxmeter poll indicates no more…

1.4% in the polls is a ‘slap in the face’ for the ‘Klaus Riskær Pedersen’ party, according to leading political commentator Henrik Qvortrup who said the convicted fraudster has a ’long, hard’ road…

Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen has urged the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to stop its biased treatment of Israel when debating human rights issues. In a speech to the opening of the…

The number of immigrants and descendants of immigrants in the labour market is slowly rising. The latest Statistics Denmark figures show that between 2016-17 the percentage of immigrants with a job rose to…