Danish GDP sank by 0.5% in Q1, as both private and public spending fell dramatically. It was expected that GDP would rise during the first three months after a dip of 0.2% in…

Parliament’s concluding debate, Tuesday, was dominated by the economy. Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen stressed the importance of the cross-party agreements made over the past six weeks for the future sustainability of the…

One-legged Chechen bomber Lors Doukaev has been given a 12-year jail sentence after being found guilty of plotting a terrorist attack on Jyllands-Posten. Before retiring, jurors had heard the prosecution’s appeal for the…

People who pay ‘black’ money – no invoice, no VAT – to tradesman should be punished, the so-called ‘wise men’ of the Economic Council suggest in their latest bi-annual ‘state of the economy’…

It’s OK to eat Danish cucumbers. In response to German suspicions that Danish-produced cucumbers could contain the life-threatening E.coli bacteria, VTED, the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (DVFA) asked two growers to withdraw…

Lors Doukaev, the one-legged Chechen boxer, has been found guilty of terrorism. Copenhagen District Court judges and jurors were in no doubt that Doukaev was planning an attack on Jyllands-Posten, the original publisher…

The Social Liberals will penalise affluent old-age pensioners who have put money aside for their ‘golden years’. According to proposals published yesterday in the party’s own 2020 plan, pensioners shouldn’t automatically have the…

Political journalists at leading newspaper Berlingske are asking questions as to whether the paper is too ‘government friendly’ after management deleted a sensitive passage from an article about Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen,…

Eight other countries employ the same level of border control that Denmark is planning to introduce. Although Denmark has come under fire within the EU for becoming closed off, Minister of Taxation Peter…

A Danish sperm donor has passed on a chronic and potentially serious sickness to at least nine babies. Although blue eyes, blond hair, and intelligence are high on the list for childless women…