The government’s first three months in power may have been dominated by record-low opinion polls, embarrassing personal issues, and the broken promises debate, but in an interview with news agency Ritzau to mark…

Social Liberal leader Margrethe Vestager has warned voters they can expect widespread reforms over the next few years. At the party’s New Year get-together in Nyborg, she said the initial aim is to…

Villy Søvndal’s call for ‘responsible economic policy’ has moved the traditional socialist party even closer towards the centre of Danish politics, according to the editor of Berlingske’s political magazine, Politico, Bent Winther. In…

The Danish economy continued to suffer in 2011 and, according to influential business and finance weekly newsletter Økonomiske Ugebrev, there’s no sign of any imminent turnaround in 2012 – private spending will continue…

An American citizen has been given a deportation order even though he’s married to a Danish citizen and has lived in Denmark for years. 78-year-old Martin Lownheim, who worked as a co-director on…

80,000 young adults of working age are living off state handouts or their parents’ generosity instead of looking for a job or education possibilities. New figures from the Economic Council of the Labour…

Minister for Development Cooperation Christian Friis Bach has promised to double Danish development aid to Burma from DKK50m to DKK100m next year. Mr Bach, who’s currently on a fact-finding mission to the country,…

The government has presented its programme for the Danish EU Presidency. Under the title Europe at work – Europa i arbejde Europe au travail. Europa bei der Arbeit – the four main priorities…

The widespread pessimism surrounding the housing market is the greatest barrier to any hope of recovery this year. A new Greens poll shows that 53 per cent of the public expect prices to…

When Development Minister Christian Friis Bach meets Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma today it will be the first time ever that a high-ranking Danish politician has met the world-renowned symbol of peaceful…