The ‘mad axeman’ who was given a 10-year jail sentence for attempting to murder Mohammed illustrator Kurt Westergaard has been granted a Supreme Court appeal by The Danish Board of Appeal Permission. 29-year-old…

The government’s plan to double the number of windmills in Denmark over the next nine years, to produce half of Denmark’s energy needs, has been met with opposition by the National Association of…

Denmark is ranked high in a survey of the level of employment in EU countries. New Statistics Denmark figures show that 73.5% of the population between the ages of 15-64 are employed, just…

A political majority is preparing to impose more controls on the financial supervisory authorities in the wake of the state’s billion kroner loss on the, now collapsed, Amager Bank. The new government has…

A.P. Moeller Maersk has taken a major step towards increasing the level of information and transparency surrounding the company. The normally secretive shipping giant has granted unprecedented access to its business details by…

Sharia law and democracy are definitely compatible according to a leading expert in Islam who’s come out in support of Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal’s willingness to accept a ‘softer’ version of Sharia in…

Great Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, will be in Copenhagen next week. After a lunch with Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Marty at Amalienborg…

Helle Thorning-Schmidt is desperately trying to shake off her image of a ‘promise breaker’ but it’s difficult when new accusations crop up every day, leading political commentator Thomas Larsen said yesterday after witnessing…

Former Conservative MP Naser Khader has warned Foreign Minister Villy Søndal not to accept any form of Islamic Sharia legislation in Libya. The Syrian-born Mr Khader said there’s no such thing as ‘Sharia…

Three Danish Refugee Council employees have been kidnapped by gunmen in Northern Somali. The three – a 60-year-old Danish man, 32-year-old American woman, and a male Somali colleague – were abducted on Tuesday near…