Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt presented the programme of the Danish presidency of the EU for the next six months at the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg, Wednesday. She said she was a…

The crisis in Denmark has encouraged Danish professionals to take the long trek up to Norway. Faced with an increasingly bleak outlook in this country, hundreds of nurses, tradesmen, and engineers have chosen…

The Liberal Alliance (LA) is ready to negotiate – and possibly vote for – the government’s tax reform proposals. The small ultra-liberalist party has embraced Tax Minister Thor Möger Pedersens proposal to lower…

Scandinavia’s struggling flagship airline, SAS, will slash 300 administrative jobs in the latest round of its ‘4Excellence’ plan aimed at cutting costs by 3-5% annually. According to CEO Rickard Gustafson, the lay-offs, coupled…

The European Commission’s decision to open legal proceedings against Hungary over reforms to its central bank, data protection and judiciary is ‘correct’, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said last night on arrival in Strasbourg…

In a complete turnaround from normal Social Democrat policy, Minister for Taxation Thor Möger Pedersen said yesterday that only people who work should expect any tax relief in the government’s upcoming tax reform,…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has again been accused of reneging on a campaign promise. The Liberal Party’s finance spokesperson Peter Christensen became incensed after learning that public expenditures this year would be DKK1.6bn…

The Liberal Alliance (LA) will do everything it can to block the government’s plan to make DKK40bn available to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to be used to provide loan guarantees for the…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt (Social Democrats) appealed to the opposition at her weekly press conference yesterday, asking them to cooperate in negotiations about energy taxes. But the Liberal Party’s energy spokesperson Lars Christian…

Nykredit, one of the country’s leading banking and mortgage financial groups, has warned that a ‘large number’ of employees are facing dismissal as part of a major restructuring plan being presented later this…