Helle Thorning-Schmidt paid her respects during a memorial event in Norway this weekend, marking one year since 77 innocent people were killed in two related terrorist attacks near Oslo. She delivered a speech…

Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen, chairperson of the far-left Red/Green Alliance, dismissed claims that the party is working towards a violent revolution. She made her statements after members of the party’s powerful executive committee outlined their…

Liberal MEP Jens Rohde may damage his career in the European Parliament (EP) by refusing to say what he did and how much he earned before being elected. In December last year, the…

When Danes point to the political party that most represents the concept of ‘Danishness’, they single out the Danish People’s Party (DPP). This is according to 39 per cent of respondents in a…

Experts believe that the Social Democrats and Socialist People’s Party will suffer significant mayoral losses coming into the next municipal elections. Poul Erik Mouritzen, a municipal researcher from Southern Denmark University, and Roger…

Volunteers and employees of Danish relief agencies will have to pay taxes – both in Denmark and in the countries where they work. Minister of Development Cooperation Christian Friis Bach (Social Liberals) made…

Denmark has seen a 36 per cent increase in the number of electronic tags being used to monitor criminals during the first six months of 2012. “Right now, we have 44 people with…

According to Statistics Denmark, retail sales in June declined by a surprising 0.3 per cent compared with the previous month, after adjusting figures for inflation and normal seasonal variations. In particular, lower food sales…

Danish prisons are full of criminal east Europeans who should be deported as soon as possible – that’s the message from the Socialist People’s Party (SPP) and Danish People’s Party (DPP) in response…

New OECD figures shatter the myth that Denmark is a financial haven for the unemployed. Since the 1990’s, when the unemployment insurance scheme was regarded as the most generous in the world, Denmark…