The number of bank repossessions reached the next-highest level for eighteen years in 2012, as an average of fourteen families a day were forced to leave their home after being unable to repay…

The Consumer Council has advised customers to turn their backs on banks that demand a ’start fee’ to set up a new, internet-based, account. The Danske Bank, Denmark’s biggest bank, has announced that…

A 49-year-old Norwegian man was killed when the police returned gunfire in a drug-related shoot-out in Aalbæk Harbour, Northern Jutland, early Monday morning. A police officer who was shot in the leg is…

ECONOMIA El centro de Estudios “Cepos” (think tank), elogió la declaración de la PM, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, de que en el  2013 se ejecutará una serie de reformas que ayudarán a que 55,000 desempleados…

Politics / Economy The liberal think-tank Cepos praised Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s statement that 2013 will be characterised by reforms to help 55,000 unemployed people find jobs. Over 5,500 ‘acute package’ jobs will be…

Top level Social Democrat sources claim there are plans to unseat party leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt before the next election. According to tabloid daily BT, the Social Democrats are performing so poorly in the…

Both Employment Minister Mette Frederiksen (Social Democrats) and Economy and Interior Minister Margaret Vestager (Social Liberals) are downplaying how much cuts to public-assistance – along with other reforms in the government’s 2020 proposal…

Denmark is close to achieving the European record for financial disparity between high and low earners. New Eurostat figures reveal that while annual salaries in 17 European countries, including Sweden, have become more…

Although it’s been proved that a Danish company breached trade sanctions for fifteen year by illegally trading with East Germany during the Cold War period, its owners have never been prosecuted. Newly released…

Although the government believes that income tax relief which kicks in this month is the key to boosting consumer spending, and subsequently the economy, a new Danske Bank survey shows that much of the increase…