After just two days in the hot seat, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt is already facing dissension from within her own party. A number of Social Democrat MP’s have voiced their dissatisfaction at her…

The new government has suffered its first parliamentary defeat. At a procedural meeting to discuss the breakdown of committees in the new parliament, the far-left Red/Green Alliance sided with the opposition and voted…

Copenhagen will end up as a ‘Mecca’ for sex tourists unless something is done about the ever-growing prostitution industry. That’s the warning from Copenhagen Town Hall politician Lars Aslan Rasmussen (S) who claims…

Danish priests are ready to perform wedding ceremonies for homosexual couples. In response to the new government’s proposal for ‘gender-neutral marriage legislation’, Mr Bucholdt Andreasen, head of the National Association of Priests, said…

Margarethe Vestager gave greater priority to the EU than the Danish Parliament on her first day at work. Instead of listening to Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s opening speech, Denmark’s new Finance Minister was…

Denmark’s new ‘fat tax’ has been ridiculed by the right-wing Fox News network in the USA. Conservative political commentator Bill O’Reilly said on his popular ‘Patriots and Pinheads’ talk show that Denmark is…

The majority of the new government’s cabinet ministers failed to stand up when HM Queen Margrethe and the rest of the Royal Family left parliament after hearing the Prime Minister’s opening speech, Tuesday….

Global credit ratings agency Standard & Poors has confirmed Denmark’s Triple A rating. In a report to international investors, the agency states that the newly-elected centre-left government, led by the Social Democrats, is…

Denmark’s first ever female Prime Minister officially opened the new session of Danish Parliament, Tuesday, with a speech highlighting the gloomy prospects for the future. She warned it would be an ‘uphill battle’ and…

Former Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said he was ‘pleasantly surprised’ at his successor’s opening speech to parliament. Even as Ms Thorning-Schmidt spoke, he wrote on his Facebook profile that it was positive to…