The middle-class in Denmark is shrinking. Since 2002, 18,000 people have become ‘rich’, while 110,000 have gone the other way and become ‘poor’, increasing the risk of a ‘polarised’ country according to labour…

The past month, the traditional season for company half-yearly accounts, has been a disaster for Copenhagen Stock Exchange. The trend-setting C20 index of top-rated shares has dropped by 22.6%, creating a DKK155bn loss…

The government has presented its much-anticipated economic growth package, including a DKK11bn cash boost for homeowners and wide-scale public investment. At a press conference, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said Denmark has suffered…

Opposition leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt has launched a full-frontal attack on the government’s growth package and called for a ‘clear the air’ election. From the Social Democrats’ summer conference she dismissed the new initiatives…

Statistics Denmark’s Consumer Confidence Index, normally a reliable indicator of the current and future state of the economy, plunged into negative territory in August (minus 2.2) as Danish consumers kept a tight rein…

The Socialist People’s Party (SPP) has called for Danish F-16 fighter jets to be brought home as soon as possible. Defence spokesman Holger K. Nielsen urged Minister of Foreign Affairs Lene Espersen to…

Minister of Integration Søren Pind is ready to lay out the welcome mat for immigrants from other capitalistic, democratic countries. In what could become a key election issue, Mr Pind will provide citizens…

It isn’t over until the fat lady sings. Even though the opposition maintains its lead in the latest Gallup poll, with 51.5% to the government alliance’s 48.3%, the narrow margin shows that the…

A new Voxmeter poll for news agency Ritzau differs widely from Gallup by predicting a resounding defeat for Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen – 53.5% for the left-wing opposition, and just 44.5% for…

Minister of Defence Gitte Lillelund Bech said last night that Danish fighter jets that have been part of the Libya operation since March will remain in the battle zone until NATO decides otherwise….