Things aren’t as bad as they appear in this country, according to Governor of the National Bank Nils Bernstein who has urged Danes to stop whining. In an interview with Jyllands-Posten he says…

The government will target Danes’ unhealthy lifestyle in today’s budget proposals. According to details that have leaked out, the price of a packet of cigarettes will rise by 3 kroner, a crate of…

Nordic ministers have dismissed the notion of a common Scandinavian currency. Despite the crisis that has devastated the Greek economy and the pressure on the euro, the region’s Foreign Ministers, gathered in Copenhagen…

A.P. Moeller-Maersk (APM), Denmark’s biggest and most famous company, paid DKK9.5bn in diverse taxes to the Danish state last year, including DKK2.9bn in corporation tax. The oil and shipping giant, tired of the…

The number of businesses filing for bankruptcy in Denmark has fallen for the 11th month in a row, a new report by credit information and marketing group Experian shows, although the number of…

The S/SL/SPP coalition has come come up with a further DKK200m for research and development. The former government’s cutback plans have been wiped out and R&D will now receive a total of DKK19.2bn…

The government has pulled DKK9m in funding for controversial environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Centre. The Lib/ Con government claimed in 2001 that appointing Mr Lomborg as head of the Environmental Assessment Institute…

In a rather surprising turnaround, the government has agreed to launch an independent inquiry into alleged CIA rendition flights through Danish airspace. After originally dropping plans to appoint a commission, Minister of Foreign…

Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal’s about-turn on an inquiry into alleged CIA flights has been dismissed as ‘amateurish’ and ‘rather strange’ by the Liberals’ foreign affairs spokesman, former Integration Minister Søren Pind, who said…

Last night’s fire-bomb attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hedbo has been condemned as an attack on freedom throughout the world by the Danish People’s Party. Deputy leader Peter Skaarup charcterised the Molotov…