Amid wide-ranging corporate downsizing, Novo A/S is growing by leaps and bounds. As part of its new expansion strategy, the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s investment company has launched a DKK1bn plan to acquire mature,…

Professor Hans Jørgen Whitta-Jacobsen, head of the so-called ‘wise men’ of the economy Denmark, has challenged analysts who believe Denmark is in danger of losing its triple A credit rating. After Standard &…

House prices in this country will continue to fall in 2012, by 4-5 per cent according to mortgage lenders Realkredit, following on last year’s average drop of 6.6 per cent. Senior economist Christian…

Denmark has appointed its first ever Ambassador for Arctic Affairs. Klavs Holm, head of the Foreign Ministry’s Public Diplomacy Department, has been given a mandate to coordinate and represent Danish interests in the…

If you’re looking for top-class hospital treatment it would be advisable to give the Zeeland health region surrounding Copenhagen a wide berth. New health statistics reveal that in the third quarter of 2011…

Minister for Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal has announced the closure of three Danish embassies, in Iraq, Benin and Zambia, part of the ministry’s plan to re-prioritise and become more streamlined. The Baghdad embassy…

Thousands of entrepreneurs have been so scared off by constant talk of job cuts, dwindling order books, and bankruptcies that they’ve shelved all plans to open their own business, leading to the loss…

The number of long-term unemployed has exploded over the past few years, creating panic amongst the jobless who risk losing their unemployment insurance as a result of the previous government’s cutbacks. Between 2008…

Of the 80,000 young people who haven’t been in work or or under education for the past six months, nearly a third, 26,000, are from ethnic minorities. New figures from Governmental Research (GR)…

All public funding for The Institute for Human Rights has been suspended after an audit of past projects revealed accounting discrepancies of millions of kroner. According to accountancy company Price Waterhouse Coopers, over…