Minister for the Economy and Interior Margrethe Vestager has eased the financial restraints imposed on local authorities by allowing mayors to loosen the purse strings and invest more in public infrastructure projects this…

Foreign tourists continue to bypass Denmark when they travel to Scandinavia. While the number of overnight stays continues to rise in countries such as Germany, Norway, and Finland, it’s the opposite in this…

17 local authorities in this country are under investigation after allegations of concealing illegalities by farmers who breach the rules for claiming EU agricultural aid. If the claims are correct it could cost…

Coalition partners, the Social Democrats and Social Liberals, are pushing for a system of national road pricing that charges motorists directly for driving on a particular roadway or in a particular area. Both…

The number of Danes committing suicide by throwing themselves in front of a train has risen dramatically over the past two years. 46 used this method to kill themselves in 2012 , a…

Copenhagen Police seized around 20 kilos of cannabis, thousands of joints, and a loaded revolver when they raided the ‘free state’ of Christiania for the second time in a week, Wednesday. Officers were…

Canadian-Pakistani doctor Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who will be sentenced by a Chicago court, Thursday, for planning a murderous terrorist attack on Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen in 2009, urged his co-conspirators to let ‘decapitated heads…

The government is ready to grant concessions to the business sector to boost competiveness and help create jobs. Business, economy, and finance ministers have been given until March to come up with new…

The government’s plan for a new job package come just as new figures show that the initial emergency jobs scheme launched last August has been a failure. DKK330m was set aside in a…

Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal said the situation in Mali is so critical in Mali that Denmark has a duty to help out. After a cross-party parliamentary majority, with the exception of the far-left…