Thousands of Copenhagen ‘Dankort’ holders have become the victims of fraud. At the latest count, around 3,000 people have discovered that US dollars have been unlawfully drawn from their accounts, in the USA,…

MP’s at Christiansborg, home of parliament, will no longer be allowed to smoke in their offices after the New Year. Politicians exempted themselves from public-sector smoking restrictions imposed four years ago but Speaker…

An abstract painting my HM Queen Margrethe was sold for DKK130,000 (USD24,000) at an online auction, Wednesday, less than half of its estimated catalogue value of DKK275,000. However, the proceeds won’t be ending…

Food giant Danish Crown has bought up foreign tenderloin beef, extended its expiration date, and sold it to supermarkets as ‘Danish made’. The meat is widely available in the frost boxes at discount…

Danish telecom companies have been forced to hand over detailed information of customers’ telephone records to the tax authorities. According to the Computerworld magazine, the tax authorities claim they have the right to…

Former Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen risks being dragged deeper and deeper into the Taxgate scandal. Expert in personal data protection law, Professor Peter Blume of Copenhagen University, said there’s no doubt that…

Tax department employees who smoke will in future be asked to work longer hours to compensate for the time they spend away from their desks on smoke breaks. Head of the Copenhagen Tax…

Despite Denmark’s reputation as a vociferous anti-torture country, a new survey shows that  23 per cent of all Danes believe it’s OK to torture people in certain situations. Minister of Justice Morten Bødskov…

The government has vowed to crack down on smoking – but it’s going to have to clean its own house first. MP’s are still allowed to smoke in their own offices at Christiansborg,…

Head of the far-left Red-Green Alliance, Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen, has demanded that Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt offers a public apology to the unemployed for claiming it was a ‘provocation’ that up to third of…