The government is going to have to take a dramatic left-turn if it wants the Red/Greens to vote for the 2012 budget later this year and avert a new election. That’s the message…

The ruling Social Democrats have launched a counter-offensive against the Red/Green Alliance, the government’s guarantor of a parliamentary majority. In response to weeks of criticism from the former communists, culminating in a nationwide…

Margrethe Vestager acknowledged the disastrous opinion polls but said the government will ultimately be judged on its results. In an interview with DR News, the Social Liberal leader, seen by many as the…

The trade union movement has urged the government to concentrate on getting the unemployed into the labour market right now instead of long-term reform projects. After the collapse of tripartite union/government/employer negotiations, Harald…

More and more unskilled jobs are being taken by foreign nationals such as Romanians, Poles, and Thais, because Danes don’t want them or social benefits are so high that it doesn’t pay to…

40 per cent of the electorate believe that Danes drink excessively, a new Megafon poll for Politiken finds – but at the same time, only one in five would support political intervention in…

Voluntary drug workers have launched a street-level information campaign after a junkie died of anthrax poisoning, Sunday. The ‘Gadejuristerne’ (Street-legals), a charity aid organisation that helps hard-core drug addicts, has hung posters throughout…

While Helle Thorning-Schmidt may be ‘friendless’ at home, she is receiving high praise for her performance during Denmark’s EU presidency, being seen as a hardworking, dynamic leader and someone who delivered many results….

There were 1,154 layoffs announced in June – a decrease of about 500 compared to May, according to the latest figures from the National Labour Market Authority. But economists at Danske Bank believe…

The government is launching a national strategy to better protect young people against forced marriages, and special-fund negotiations for 2012 have allocated DKK24m to the strategy’s six focus areas over the next four…