In the first six weeks after she became prime minister, Hell Thorning Schmidt spent DKK1.4m on eight flights to meetings in Europe. According to tabloid daily BT, the specific costs of chartering planes…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt was forced to seek shelter in an air-raid bunker shortly after arriving in Afghanistan, Thursday evening. She and the rest of the Danish Camp Bastion were woken at 01.40 in…

The latest draft of the eurozone’s fiscal pact has brought Denmark a step closer to joining the pact, according to the Liberals’ EU spokesperson Lykke Friis. After reviewing the draft she said it…

With another bank in danger of collapsing, Vestjysk Bank, Denmark has now  experienced a total of 11 bank failures since the financial crisis began. This means that the country now holds the record for the…

‘Kidd’, a well-known Danish rap singer who’s been reported to the police for issuing death threats against Danish People’s Party (DPP) leadership, now claims he was ‘misunderstood’. In an interview last year, the…

Companies are cheating the state out of at least DKK2.8bn a year in taxes a new study finds, while at the same time accountancy errors are costing another DKK4.2bn, creating a DKK7bn shortfall for the…

The Red/Green Alliance has proposed a share-trading tax to raise money for the unemployed and pensioners. In a direct counter attack on the government’s move to give only wage earners tax relief, the…

The Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries announced 108 redundancies yesterday, following recent layoffs at the ministries of Finance, Social Affairs, and Integration. In this latest round, almost 70 employees were fired, and…

After an announcement yesterday that every fifth local authority would be forced to reduce its total number of council members to save money, spokespersons expressed strong concerns: Morten Marinus (Danish People’s Party) said,…

Older, well-consolidated companies that believed their wealth was a firewall against the financial crisis are now starting to feel the heat. The consulting firm Early Warning, a publicly funded system that provides assistance to…