4 out of 10 voters have deserted the government coalition parties since the 2022 election. The latest Megafon poll for TV2 shows only 30.7% of the electorate would vote for either the Social…

The government’s worst opinion poll ever coincides with Great Prayer Day today, normally a public holiday but which was scrapped by the coalition to raise money.  Despite fierce public opposition, Prime Minister Mette…

Arms smuggler Niels Holck has dismissed Denmark’s attempt to extradite him to India as ‘outrageous’ and ‘politically motivated’.  In October last year, the Attorney General (Rigsadvokaten) approved the extradition of the now 63-year-old Mr Holck, who’s…

A cross-party majority has agreed to increase military aid to Ukraine by a further DKK4.4bn ($6.3bn) this year, adding to the more than DKK60bn (€8.6bn) already allocated to the Ukraine Fund from 2023…

Brewing giant Carlsberg has announced plans to invest around DKK300m to extend its three breweries in Ukraine. As part of a trade delegation to the war-torn country last week headed by Business Minister…

A top Danish military analyst has ridiculed claims by Belarus that it prevented an attempted drone attack from Lithuania. Peter Viggo Jakobsen of the Danish Defence Academy said it would make no sense. “Why…

The independent legal inquiry into the Elbit affair has been widened and subsequently delayed, the Defence Ministry announced yesterday. Former defence minister Jacob Ellemann-Jensen quit in October following accusations of misleading parliament over the controversial…

The far-right Sweden Democrats have reached out to the Denmark’s Democrats Party about a possible partnership in the upcoming EU election campaign. The nationalist Swedish party’s leading candidate for MEP, Charlie Weimers, told…

Randers municipality has warned of a pending ‘financial disaster’ if the state doesn’t help with more money for the clean-up operation following January’s landslide at a local reprocessing plant for contaminated soil. At…

The number of people in employment rose by 5,300 in February, reaching a new record of 3,014,700, nearly 70% of the adult population. The job figures have risen for 11 of the past…