Children shouldn’t have to grow up in confinement. 7 out of 10 Danes would give families with children the right to reside outside asylum camps while their applications for residency are being processed,…

TV networks DR and TV2 will no longer be digging the dirt on politicians private lives. Head of TV2 News, Mikkel Hertz, said there have been too many witch-hunts over the past few…

Amnesty International has urged Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck to withdraw its pentobarbital sedative from the US market if the penal authorities continue to use it as part of a lethal injection for those…

Sweden has increased interest rates five times over the past seven months in an effort to keep a tight rein on growth, a period during which the prime lending rate in this country…

Multi-millionaire Karsten Ree has apologised for investing hundreds of millions of kroner in the collapsed Amager Bank. Mr Ree told the bank’s shareholders at a gathering in Copenhagen today he was sorry they…

Auto sales continue to pick up. 12,349 new cars were sold in January, a 16% rise on the same month last year. Small family cars, such as the Chevrolet Spark and Toyota Aygo…

The A.P. Møller-owned Mærsk Drilling is to invest DKK6.6bn in two new offshore oil platforms in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. In an effort to boost its oil and gas division,…

Minister of Development Aid Søren Pind has launched a full-frontal attack on a leading professor who criticised his colleague, Minister of Immigration Birthe Rønn Hornbech. On his Facebook page, Mr Pind calls Professor…

The Danish Navy’s hunt for pirates off the coast of Africa has been a success, according to Minister of Foreign Affairs Lene Espersen, even though none have so far been prosecuted. The viability…

The citizenship debate reached new heights yesterday when the Danish People’s Party’s Jesper Langballe said that Denmark should repeal the two UN conventions that the country violated by denying 22 stateless Palestinians their…