When public institutions in Denmark and the rest of Europe get better at ‘buying green’ it will benefit the environment, boost growth, and create jobs, Environment Minister Ida Auken said yesterday at the…

Both candidates fighting to become new Socialist People’s Party (SPP) leader have signalled potential conflict with government policy by rejecting Liberal demands that money saved on benefits cuts should go towards funding new…

The opposition will financially reward East European countries such as Romania, Poland, and Lithuania that agree to accept the repatriation of their own criminal citizens. Under the terms of a new proposal from…

Denmark should drop all efforts to re-socialise foreign prison inmates who are awaiting deportation, the Liberals’ justice spokesman Karsten Lauritzen said yesterday ahead of cross-party negotiations surrounding a new long-term agreement for the…

Justice Minister Morten Bødskov has come out in defence of the new public information bill agreed by the government, Liberals, and Conservatives last week that limits public access to ministerial documents and correspondence….

An estimated 10-70 illegal immigrants a day get off a plane at Copenhagen Airport every day without being checked because the police don’t have sufficient manpower. According to the police’s own trade union…

Morten Storm, who claims he helped Danish Intelligence (PET) and the CIA to locate and murder Anwar-Al-Awlaki, first offered himself to PET as a double agent in 2006, eleven years after he converted…

The Danish military is reluctant to abolish mandatory national service for young males even though 95 per cent of recruits today are volunteers. Abolishing national service would require a constitutional amendment so the…

It’s estimated that insurance fraud is costing companies around DKK2bn a year. The economic crisis has created a sharp rise in social and tax fraud, but insurance companies report that they are also…

Politics / Economy In her opening speech to the new parliamentary session, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt focussed on the need for education and job creation to prevent the welfare state from crumbling, but…