After comfortably winning the Socialist People’s Party leadership race, Saturday, Annette Vilhelmsen stressed that she was 100 per cent behind the coalition’s political platform and pledged she would strive to keep the party…

Danish  newspapers are divided as to whether the Socialist People’s Party’s (SPP) choice of Annette Vilhelmsen as leader is good or bad for the government, but agree there are interesting times ahead as…

Newly-elected Socialist People’s Party leader Anette Vilhelmsen is already a popular figure with the electorate. A new Epinion poll for DR News of all voters shows that 41 per cent are in favour…

Former Socialist People’s Party leader Holger K. Nielsen, who stepped down seven years ago, appears to be heading for a surprising political comeback. Mr Nielsen, a favourite of the left, has been advising…

Danish Intelligence (PET) was allegedly deeply involved in finding a European wife for terrorist leader Anwar al-Awlaki. Former PET double agent Morten Storm, who revealed last week he had helped PET, and the…

Sweden and Denmark, two highly-developed welfare states, have traditionally competed for the position of ‘world’s most taxed nation’, but according to a new report by right-leaning think-tank CEPOS, Denmark will far outstrip its…

The police and customs authorities seized a record amount of illegal doping substances last year – 240,155 pills or ampoules and 11 kilos of undiluted substances. Police spokesman Karsten Krisensen said illegal pills…

Danish-Bahranian Maryam al-Khawaja has been awarded the prestigious Swedish Stieg Larsson-award for ‘her courageous struggle for democracy and human rights’. Maryam is the daughter of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who co-founded and headed the Bahrain…

As some analysts have been speculating over recent weeks, Business and Growth Minister Ole Sohn (Socialist People’s Party, SPP) has officially given up his cabinet position. And he will leave politics altogether when…

During the war against Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya last year, Danish F-16 fighters deployed precision bombs, which were equipped with parts supplied by Israel. Chief of Defence Peter Bartram has now confirmed…