‘A complete waste of money’ – the business sector’s immediate response to the government’s plan to spend DKK500m on re-training the unemployed, part of its job reform proposals. Ole Steen Olsen, labour market…

Ahead of International Workers Day today, local union officials have accused the ruling Social Democrats, the traditional workers party, of failing the trade union movement. In a new Politiken survey, two-thirds of the…

The Conservatives and Danish People’s Party (DPP) have called for a full-scale report on the extent of transit criminality – how many burglaries are carried out by East Europeans and which countries do…

Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard has declared himself ready to discuss an EU arms embargo against Russia and will also provide funding and observers to Ukraine’s presidential election. He called a ban on arms…

The government has announced a new aid strategy in South Sudan. DKK35m is to be diverted towards helping 150,000 South Sudanese to feed themselves while DKK10m will go to a regional-led mission to…

At least 16 employees of scandal-hit magazine See & Hear , including two former chief editors, knew that the gossip weekly was part of a widespread, systematic surveillance operation of royals and celebrities. Tabloid daily…

Swine fever fears / Apartment sales boost housing market recovery Swine fever: 700 workers at a Danish Crown slaughterhouse in Herning were placed in quarantine yesterday following the discovery of a dead pig…

Lars Løkke Rasmussen is again being questioned about his travel expenditure as chairman of the GGGI (Global Green Growth Insitute)  after it emerged that the environment organisation willingly paid for an expensive airline ticket…

Prince Joachim, the Queen’s second son, appeared visibly shaken yesterday when asked to comment on allegations that gossip magazine See&Hear paid money for his confidential credit card details. On arrival at a Copenhagen award…

One of Denmark’s best known and highly respected political commentators, Henrik Qvortrup, is the first high-profile victim of the See&Hear scandal. Mr Qvortrup, prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s former press secretary, is so…