Villy Søvndal has married for the third time. The 59-year-old Foreign Minister managed to cheat the press by marrying his 41-year-old partner Heid Perto in complete secrecy two weeks ago. According to reports,…

Under-fire Business Minister Ole Sohn is the victim of a totally unfair smear campaign instigated by Jyllands-Posten, the Danish People’s Party’s Søren Espersen, and the Liberals’ Søren Pind, according to the Socialist People’s…

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has lashed out at former cabinet minister Søren Pind for claiming that Iran should be threatened with war if it doesn’t halt its controversial nuclear programme. In a lengthy…

Minister of Development Aid Christian Friis Bach will meet both Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the de-facto leader of the opposition, and leaders of the military junta when he travels…

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has accused Minister of Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal of ‘giving up on Tibet’ just to please Beijing. Mr Søvndal’s refusal to meet Tibet’s newly-elected Prime Minister Lobsang Sangay,…

The government is going ahead with plans to introduce supervised injecting centres, so-called ‘fixing rooms’, for drug addicts. By the start of 2013, addicts will be able to stick a needle in their…

A new working party under the Ministry of Justice will investigate the police’s handling of a number of mysterious deaths classified as suicides, despite indications of murder. Experts and forensic scientists quoted in…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said yesterday the sexual harassment allegations levelled at Minister of Housing, Urban and Rural Affairs Carsten Hansen are ‘ extremely unfortunate’ and ‘regrettable’. Mr Hansen allegedly made embarrassing sexual…

From Berlingske: “I’ve never seen a Cabinet get off to a worse start than Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s team of ministers” – that’s the view of leading analyst Thomas Larsen who warns in Wednesday’s edition…

The Danish Employers’ organisation, DE, have called for foreign students being legally required to learn Danish during their stay in the country. The organisation is concerned about the very high numbers of students,…