Denmark isn’t alone in its dispute with the EU about border controls. The foreign ministers of France, Germany, and Spain have issued a joint statement stating very clearly that it’s member nations themselves…

The EU proposal to amend the rules for individual countries’ border controls (below) could signal the end of Denmark’s participation in the Schengen Agreement. Denmark has abided by 59 minor adjustments to the…

With less than a day to go before the polls open, the latest Megafon poll shows the opposition has maintained its solid lead but the Socialist People’s Party, a potential government coalition partner,…

Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Villy Søvndal are heading for power even though they’ve under-performed in the election campaign. A new Gallup survey shows that two opposition leaders have failed to live up to expectations….

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has signalled a last-minute cage of direction by reaching out to the Social Liberals, who are heading for their best election result for years and who ‘defected’ from…

Civil liberties have been seriously challenged during the past ten years of the Lib/Con coalition. The right-leaning think tank Cepos claim that more rules, more bureaucracy, and more public surveillance have led to…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has vowed to bring Danish fighter jets home from Libya before Christmas. In an interview with Politiken he said a new, cross-party, Libya strategy and the smooth withdrawal…

Denmark’s Prime Minister is dismissed as an ‘an unremarkable’ character in the latest edition of The Economist, ‘…who only got the job because his predecessor left to become head of NATO’. The respected…

 Get the lowdown on tomorrow’s election in University Post journalist Anna Meera Gaonkar’s excellent summary of last week’s 7.59 election briefing: http://universitypost.dk/article/danish-election-will-change-everything And while you’re there – 41 reasons why Danes are so…

Companies have reduced their expectations for the only bright spot of the Danish economy – exports. A new survey of 663 top business leaders paints a grim picture of export possibilities. In the…