The jobless figures continue to rise. The latest Statistics Denmark figures show that 170,300 are now officially unemployed, or 6.2% of the workforce. Minister of Employment Inger Støjberg warned that things are going…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost his appeal to the Swedish Supreme Court against the international warrant issued for his arrest. Mr Assange is wanted for questioning in Sweden in connection with rape…

Editor’s Blog, 2.12.10 7.59 – Danish News Today was launched ten days ago on November 22nd and the response has been overwhelmingly positive (then again, ambassadors and embassy staff are by nature very…

Former US Ambassador Denmark James P. Cain spent Wednesday trying to play down the significance of the Danish WikiLeaks revelations. After implying, Tuesday, that some of the 297 yet to be released documents…

Opinion is divided about Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s decision not to attend the COP-16 Climate Conference in Cancún, Mexico. Social Liberal leader Margarethe Vestager said she was disappointed to hear that Denmark…

Danish troops in Afghanistan have handed over a 13-year-old boy to the local Afghan security forces, despite constant reports of prisoners being tortured and abused. According to documents obtained by left-leaning daily Information,…

Parliament’s two most left-wing parties have come out against the government’s plan to place armed guards on planes. Minister of Justice Lars Barfoed’s announcement, Wednesday, that the government has entered into an agreement…

Birthe Rønn Hornbech has inflamed ecclesiastical passions by claiming that parliament could force the national church to introduce a marriage ritual for homosexual couples. During a joint council of parliament’s church committee, Ms…

The government and DPP’s strict immigration legislation has proved to be extremely effective. New Integration Ministry figures reveal that since the law was changed on June 1st, when a points system replaced the…

Denmark is to give DKK10m to combat drug smuggling and cross-border terrorism along the Afghan-Tadzik border. Minister of Foreign Affairs Lene Espersen, who is currently attending the OESC (Organization for Security and Co-operation…