Minister of Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal has urged Danish companies to take advantage of the EU’s decision to suspend sanctions against Burma. The EU’s 27 foreign ministers are expected to suspend sanctions for…

Royalty and top political and business leaders gathered in Holmens Church in central Copenhagen, Saturday, to pay their last respects to Mærsk McKinney Møller. Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt said he would be…

The government’s minor adjustments to anti-smoking legislation are a step in the right direction but insufficient, according to the Danish Cancer Society. The new agreement between the government and its parliamentary ally, the…

The controversy surrounding the closure of the Danish ‘Armadillo’ base in Afghanistan is ‘completely ridiculous’ according to Lars R. Møller, head of Forsvarskommandoen, the Danish military supreme command authority, who claims the final…

Denmark’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Christian Kønigsfeldt visited the Danish-Bahrain Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, Sunday. According to a Danish Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mr al-Khawaja, who’s in a military hospital in Bahrain, remains in a very…

Trade & Investment Minister Pia Olsen Dyhr, representing the EU, has travelled to Canada in the hope of concluding a comprehensive economic and free trade agreement. Canada is currently the EU’s 11th most…

After the collapse of yet another bank, Minister for Business Ole Sohn claimed last night that the banking sector is healthy and he has ‘complete confidence’ in Danish banks. Spareksassen Østjyland is the…

The financial crisis has been particularly hard on young people. A new Economic Council of the Labour Movement report on employment developments shows that out of the 265,000 workers that lost their jobs…

The obesity epidemic in this country appears to have slowed down. According to a new medical survey, obesity figures rose by between 50 and 100 percent 1980 and 2000 but since then has…

Confessed Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik praised Denmark’s strict immigration policy, Thursday, when he claimed that he wouldn’t have carried out his murderous spree last year if the Fremskridtspartiet (Progress Party), the Norwegian…