Ahead of a meeting in Copenhagen next week with Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt (Social Democrats), EU Commission president José Manuel Barroso said that Denmark will play a crucial role in its EU presidency…

Danish People’s Party leader Pia Kjærsgaard has lashed out at environment minister Ida Auken (SPP) for publicly stating that ministers spend too much time on Queen Margrethe, shortly before Her Majesty hosted the…

Consulting firm McKinsey has recommended in a confidential report that A.P. Møller-Mærsk divests its shares in Danske Bank and its majority holding in Dansk Supermarked to create synergy and allow Mærsk Group to…

Danish farmers have long benefited from the fact that Denmark has the world’s best developed organic market, where local citizens statistically buy the most organic products. But now, a greater demand for organics…

Danish shipping companies pay between DKK 1 to 2 billion annually to prevent piracy, according to a statement by Carsten Mortensen, chairman of the Shipowners’ Association. This money is most often used to…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s New Year speech has been dismissed by leading newspapers as ‘meaningless’, ‘vague’, and a generally gloomy view of the crisis that Denmark’s mired in. Berlingske’s first editorial of 2102…

Top Danish executives are suffering from a pessimism hangover as they enter the New Year. In a new business survey by the Greens Institute for financial daily Børsen, three out of four CEO’s …

The number of immigrants claiming incapacity or invalidity pensions has risen dramatically over the past five years – 51 per cent on a national basis and 68 per cent in the Funen region…

Danish supermarkets that are part of the Co-op chain, such as Bilka, Irma, Kvikly, and Fakta, are selling specially designed plastic bags for five kroner in aid of starving children in Africa –…

Denmark assumes EU Presidency 1.1.12 . A Happy New Year to all 7:59 readers.