A wall built at this week’s Roskilde Festival has been described as political propaganda. Erected by DanChurchAid by the main stage, the wall is intended to highlight the security barrier that separates the…

Police have warned that contaminated drugs are flourishing at this year’s Roskilde Festival after a young Swedish male was found dead and many others admitted to hospital. A police spokesman issued a warning…

Danish wind energy giant Vestas has dismissed claims that it will soon be put for sale as ‘pure speculation’. According to the British Sunday Times, the company, carrying a debt burden of €2bn,…

Efficient, but boring – that’s the general consensus from foreign correspondents asked to evaluate the Danish EU Presidency that culminated with the Brussels summit last week. Since January 1st, the EU has adopted…

Denmark signed-off the EU Presidency, Saturday, and handed the reins to a country in crisis – Cyprus, which on Monday asked Brussels for a €10bn loan to stabilise its struggling economy and was…

Socialist People’s Party (SPP) rebel MP Özlem Cekic, who’s been suspended as party spokesperson on social and mental health affairs after refusing to vote for the government’s tax reform bill, has vowed to…

The government is preparing to rescind the contentious sugar and fat duties imposed last year, aimed at raising an extra DKK2.4bn for the state and encouraging Danes to eat healthier. Under pressure from…

After a three-day visit to Afghanistan, Defence Minister Nick Hækkerup said things are slowly moving in the right direction but it’s still a very daunting situation with setbacks along the way. In a…

New gay wedding legislation has seriously hit the Danish National Church’s membership figures. Over the past six months, significant numbers have broken away and started nine Evangelical Lutheran independent congregations, with several more…

Danes have become a nation of ‘snitches’. A new survey by Politiken reveals that an ever-increasing number of people are reporting social fraud with the help of anonymous ‘hot lines’ set up by…