Ahead of a Brussels meeting to settle the EU’s budget for the next seven years, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso assured Denmark’s he’s aware of the demand for a rebate on its contribution…

Danish consumers have become considerably less pessimistic about the economy. Statistics Denmark’s Consumer Confidence Index for March shows a healthy increase, the third month on month rise in a row, to just below…

The opposition has welcomed the Social Liberals’ willingness to finance parts of the government’s upcoming tax reform with public sector cuts. Although the other two coalition partners, the Social Democrats and Socialist People’s…

Moving over 90 per cent of its production facilities to Thailand has been a life saver for Royal Copenhagen. The 237 year old, world-famous porcelain manufacturer has posted operating profits of DKK38.7m ($7m)…

Permanent under secretary at the Ministry of Tax, head of department Peter Loft who’s implicated in the Helle Thorning Schmidt ‘Taxgate’ affair, was sent home yesterday and granted a leave of absence. Tax…

Danish troops in Afghanistan placed a 13-year old boy in custody in a juvenile detention centre in the Helmand province where inmates had been beaten and sexually molested by the prison inspector and…

Speaker of the House Mogens Lykketoft (S) has launched an unprecedented attack on state-run-energy company DONG’s Chairman of the Board Fritz Schur, who’s ‘tumultuous behavior and rantings to the press have cost the…

Every year, 810,000 Danes pay DKK2.3bn in commissions to the bank, with much of the money going to advisory services the customers never asked for and often never receive. This is according to…

‘Oldsters’ working for the state have a far greater risk of being fired, leading to accusations of age discrimination. In response to labour union figures showing that 40 per cent of public employees…

Citing an ambitious goal to cure diabetes within the next 20-30 years, Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Rebien Sørensen announced an extension of his contract until 2019. At the pharmaceutical giant’s general meeting in…