Villy Søvndal greeted Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab’s defection, Tuesday, as a sign that the Assad regime is experiencing difficulty resisting external pressure and showing signs of collapse. The Danish Foreign Minister said…

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has offered to back the government’s plan to rescind the contentious sugar and fat duties if Tax Minister Thor Möger Perdersen is prepared to lower the threshold for…

Danes’ love of alcohol has led to a dramatic rise in drink-related diseases. Over the past decade, the number of people suffering from liver cirrhosis has increased by 50 per cent and, according…

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has warned that it isn’t prepared to accept further cuts in defence spending, putting the government’s tax agreement with the opposition under threat. As part of a previous…

Danish MEP’s in Brussels are amongst the most ‘pro-gay’ at the European parliament. A voting review by votewatch.eu, a website that monitors MEP’s voting habits, shows that three out of four Danish MEP’s…

Scandinavia’s flagship airline SAS is facing new multi-million losses after a troubled summer plagued by technical problems. Defect fuel pumps, motor problems, and malfunctioning passenger boarding bridges have forced the airline to re-book…

Copenhagen Stock Exchange’s blue-chip C-20 index will shed the woes of the financial crisis and break 500 by then end of the year, the first time since 2007. That’s the bold forecast from…

Fewer homeowners are being forcibly evicted. New Statistic Denmark figures show that the number of bank repossessions, a refection of the financial and housing market crisis, fell slightly to 443 in July, compared…

International companies exploring for oil off the coast of Greenland could have seriously underestimated the climate problems. According to Bloomberg News, icebergs continue to splinter the coastline at an ever-increasing pace, putting companies’…

Politics / Economy A slow, slow political week in Denmark. Handelsbanken dismissed the government’s attempt to kick-start the economy as a failure and predicted up to 50,000 more jobs could be lost by…