Swedish police have discovered explosives at the Ringhals nuclear power plant, just 100 kilometres across the Kattegat from the Danish town of Frederikshavn. Bomb sniffer dogs detected the explosives during a routine check…

Copenhagen Police arrested 32 sex workers in a swoop on the red-light district of Istedgage in Vesterbro, early Thursday morning. 31 were women from Nigeria suspected of holding false residency permits, while a…

Tomorrow (Saturday) is Skt. Hans Night (Midsummer Eve), traditionally the year’s longest day and, according to the Danish Meteorological institute (DMI), the start of a long period of Danish summer weather – mostly…

Voters may have given Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt the cold shoulder but her government receives top marks for its economic policy from a majority of the country’s leading economists. Based on a scale…

Shoot the politicians, not the euro! That’s the message from Economy Minister Margarethe Vestager after former Governor of the Danish National Bank Erik Hoffmeyer claimed in a radio interview that the EU’s national…

The government believes that Denmark will be able to avoid financial crises in the future by setting up a supervisory ‘risk council’ that should, in theory, be able to foresee and prevent bank…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has brushed off an invitation from Liberal leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen to negotiate tax reform in Rio de Janeiro, where both are attending the UN climate summit. Mr Rasmussen…

Lars Løkke Rasmussen is bluffing when he claims he’s ready to discuss tax reform in the midst of discussions about water wastage and CO2 quotas in Rio de Janeiro. Leading political analyst Henrik…

A number of former Liberal cabinet ministers, led by ex-prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, have been called to testify before the commission set up to investigate who leaked details of Prime Minister Helle…

Denmark is ranked no.6 on a list of which EU citizens have the greatest purchasing power. The EU’s statistical agency, Eurostat, measures GDP per capita to make a comparison of 27 EU member…