All companies listed on Copenhagen Stock Exchange’s trend-setting C20 index have have now published their year-end 2011 accounts and the picture emerging is constant – virtually all have become more productive, but the…

Two Danish immigrants have been named on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual Young Global Leaders Honourees list – the 36 year-old Soulaiam Gourani, originally from Morocco, and the more prominent Crown Princess…

Former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s smoking addiction cost taxpayers DKK154,000 during his time in office. The Liberals, who showered Minister of Food Mette Gjerskov with criticism earlier this year when it was…

On top of all her political problems, Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt could be heading for more confrontation with the government’s aggressive parliamentary ally, the far-left Red/Green Alliance. A demand by radical left-wing…

Maersk Line customers have expressed surprise that the world’s top container shipping firm is raising rates from April 1 on key routes, creating speculation about a possible cartel agreement between leading freight companies….

Minister of Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal characterised reports of voter fraud in Sunday’s Russian election as ‘unfortunate’ but expressed hopes of closer links with Moscow. He stressed that, for Denmark, it’s very important…

NATO Secretary Genral Anders Fogh Rasmussen has denied that anyone within the military alliance tampered with the UN report on the Libya war and rejected allegations by a ‘highly-placed UN source’, quoted in…

Only one in four companies in this country pays tax, according to a new survey by the Economic Council of the Labour Movement (AE) who have now urged politicians to introduce more effective…

It’s small ‘mom and pop’ businesses that try to cheat the tax man most. As the tax authorities prepare to send out final tax statements for 2011, Director of the Inland Revenue, Rasmus…

More and more people are ‘snitching’ on fellow citizens who ‘moonlight’ (work with low pay and no tax paid). The Inland Revenue collected an extra DKK120m last year as a result of 6,843…