The Danish military is going to have to find nearly DKK3bn in cuts, not the DKK2bn as previously warned. Defence Minister Nick Hækkerup said the extra 50% is due to demands to streamline…

The anti-finance sector protests that started in Wall Street, New York, last month are heading for Denmark. A Danish movement, calling itself Occupy Denmark, has urged people to demonstrate against ‘greedy banks and…

The Danish tax authorities have launched a campaign warning travellers not to carry an excessive amount of cash. It’s forbidden to cross the leave the county with more than €10,000 (DKK75,000) without informing…

The Liberal Party is now more popular than the Social Democrats and Socialist People’s Party combined. A new YouGov poll for free daily metroXpress shows a surge of support for the former ruling…

Cheaper bus and train tickets or not? Transport Minister Henrik Dan Kristensen claims he was misquoted in today’s papers when he said he was looking for better collective traffic and not necessarily cheaper…

Although the new government will reintroduce its predecessor’s finance bill to parliament, Tuesday, Social Liberal leader Margrethe Vestager denied that the S/SL/SPP coalition has fully adopted the previous Lib/Con coalition’s economic policy. “It’s…

A notorious gang leader is to be deported. The Supreme Court today overruled the High Court’s decision from March that stateless Palestinian Mahmoud Khalol Salem, better know as ‘Fez Fez’ in Odense’s underworld,…

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has invited Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt to join him next year at the Rio+20 climate summit in June. After attending the Global Green Growth Forum in Copenhagen, ‘a…

Denmark’s EU Climate Commissioner has again hit out at the USA’s unwillingness to take climate change seriously. Speaking at the Global Green Growth Forum in Copenhagen, she accused Washington of ‘passivity’ and ‘foot…

A majority of the electorate is ready to shed Denmark’s EU opt-outs on defence cooperation and justice. New Minister for European Affairs Nicolai Wammen said it was both ‘gratifying’ and ‘positive’ that the…