Danish businesses and households will have to pay an extra DKK5bn in taxes to support green-energy plans being implemented throughout the country in 2012 that are meant to reduce electricity rates and expenditures….

As part of its plan to digitise public services for citizens by 2015, the Social Democrats want to enlist 2,000 churches to help older people gain computer training. According to IT spokesman Trine…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has looked to the army for a new Chief of Defence. At her weekly press conference, Tuesday, the PM announced the appointment of Brigadier General Peter Bartram, currently Assistant…

A vocational college in Holstebro has been ordered or pay DKKK75,000 in compensation to a young Muslim student who was forced to drop out because she was denied exemption from tasting pork as…

Housing prices dropped by a further 8 per cent in the final quarter of 2011, as 81 of the country’s 98 local authorities witnessed a depressed market getting worse. Sellers were forced to…

60 Foreign Ministry employees will be fired today, on top of the hundreds of redundancies implemented over the past few months, part of the government’s plan to streamline ministries and slash DKK1.4bn in…

Danish forces in Afghanistan continue to hand over captives to a prison known for torture. Even though the Danish Ministry has vowed to stop the practice, a new report by Afghanistan’s Independent Human…

During a stopover in Copenhagen, Monday, at the start of a European trip to all of the USA’s allies, Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ambassador Marc Grossman, said he fully agreed with…

Denmark’s first mosque, complete with 20 metre tall minaret, looks set to be built in the inner city district of Nørrebro in Copenhagen. A site has been located at the corner of Rovsingsgade…

Former Tax Minister Troels Lund Poulsen, who made a dramatic return to parliament last week after three months of forced absence, and his ex-spin doctor Peter Arnfeldt, will be placed on the witness…