The state-run dumping company for banks, Finansiel Stabilitiet (FS), has come under fire for paying a small, hand-picked, group of lawyers over DKK100m to investigate the business affairs of bankrupt banks. Armed with…

A Danish father has gone underground in Denmark after abducting his five year-old-son in Austria, where an arrest warrant has been issued. 40-year-old Thomas Sørensen seized the boy, Oliver, from his mother just…

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Minister of Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal has put together an unprecedented Danish diplomatic effort to try and win the release of the Danish-Bahrain national who’s in critical condition after 55 days on hunger…

A proposal that would allow foreign flags to be flown in Denmark has divided parliament. The Social Liberals’ foreign affairs spokesperson, Zenia Stampe, sparked off the controversy by suggesting that a 1915 statute,…

The government has declared war on forced marriages. Not one single case has been tested in court over the past five years since the law was tightened, even though women’s crisis shelters are…

Trade & Investment Minister Pia Olsen Dyhr will visit the Russian city of Kazan in the Tatarstan republic today as Rockwool opens the world’s biggest rock wool factory. She said Russia, as the…

Three Iranian asylum seekers have been arrested and charged with vandalising the Iranian embassy in Copenhagen and attempting to gain illegal entry. The three were caught red-handed as they daubed the embassy’s walls…

Copenhagen Stock Exchanges trend-setting C20 index closed at 465.15, Tuesday, a record high and1.3% up on the previous day, bucking the trend of most other European markets that closed down. Novo Nordisk led…

Minister of Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal should find a new ministry that would allow him to cut down on globe-trotting and concentrate on being leader of the Socialist People’s Party (SPP) – that’s…