Efficient, but boring – that’s the general consensus from foreign correspondents asked to evaluate the Danish EU Presidency that culminated with the Brussels summit last week. Since January 1st, the EU has adopted…

Denmark signed-off the EU Presidency, Saturday, and handed the reins to a country in crisis – Cyprus, which on Monday asked Brussels for a €10bn loan to stabilise its struggling economy and was…

Socialist People’s Party (SPP) rebel MP Özlem Cekic, who’s been suspended as party spokesperson on social and mental health affairs after refusing to vote for the government’s tax reform bill, has vowed to…

The government is preparing to rescind the contentious sugar and fat duties imposed last year, aimed at raising an extra DKK2.4bn for the state and encouraging Danes to eat healthier. Under pressure from…

After a three-day visit to Afghanistan, Defence Minister Nick Hækkerup said things are slowly moving in the right direction but it’s still a very daunting situation with setbacks along the way. In a…

New gay wedding legislation has seriously hit the Danish National Church’s membership figures. Over the past six months, significant numbers have broken away and started nine Evangelical Lutheran independent congregations, with several more…

Danes have become a nation of ‘snitches’. A new survey by Politiken reveals that an ever-increasing number of people are reporting social fraud with the help of anonymous ‘hot lines’ set up by…

The ‘free state’ of Christiania, seen by some as an alternative society, others as a haven for drug dealers, is now officially a district of Copenhagen. Christiana residents have handed over DKK51.8m, the…

Denmark’s EU Presidency comes to a close with EU leaders agreeing to a new DKK900bn (€120bn) ‘growth pact’ aimed at helping the union’s weakest economises, primarily Italy and Spain, out of crisis. In…

British Prime Minister David Cameron, alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, last night blocked a deal over a joint EU patent, one of Denmark’s pet-projects, after failing to secure…