Denmark has doubled its aid commitment to Somalia. During a visit to the devastated capital of Mogadishu, Minister for Development Aid Christian Friis Bach said of all the vulnerable countries he had visited…

Minister for Social Affairs Karen Hækkerup has refused to discuss the growing number of foreign homeless nationals on the streets of Copenhagen. Charity organisations Church Aid, Red Cross, Mission Homeless, and the Outside…

Bridges, roads, and pavements in Copenhagen are in such a state of disrepair that it’s going to cost at least DKK6b (USD1.1bn) to restore them. A new Town Hall report warns that the…

As the first western country ever, Denmark has opened up a Programme Office in Somaliland, the self-declared sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, to monitor Danish development aid projects. Minister of Development…

If the EU’s new fiscal compact came into power today most of the 25 countries who have joined it would already be in violation. According to one of Denmark’s leading economists, Professor Bo…

A significant majority of Danish voters support the new EU fiscal compact. A new Gallup poll shows that 56 per cent believe that Denmark should join the pact all EU countries, with the…

UNICEF has criticised Denmark for failing to give children who are victims of trafficking the protection and support they are entitled to. A new report by UNICEF’s Child Research Centre, Child Trafficking in…

Minister of Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal has granted an extra DKK34m in aid to support Arab women, who played an active role in the ‘Arab Spring’ democracy process. The money will be targeted…

From Bloomberg.com Denmark’s banking crisis is getting worse, threatening to trigger more failures, as loans to farms and small businesses sour and the property market fails to recover, the head of the Financial…

The risk of the US dollar rising against the euro, and thereby the Danish krone, has become significantly less, the Danske Bank stated yesterday. The Bank now predicts that the dollar will be…