Denmark won’t be joining the EU military training mission in Mali. A number of countries have already committed troops and advisors to  the ‘training and reorganisation’ of the Malian Armed Forces who are…

Denmark’s first supervised injecting facility for drug addicts – the so-called ’fixing room’ – has been declared a success by politicians. Before its inception in September 2012, an average of 3.7 kilos of…

After three and a half years in Denmark, Ambassador Laurie S. Fulton has fired off a mild reprimand to Danes as she prepares to return to the US. In an interview with Jyllands-Posten,…

The taxman’s hunt for money illegally stashed away in tax havens abroad has paid off. The Money Transfer project has so far raised around a billion kroner from accounts held by tax-cheating Danes…

A 43-year-old woman will appear in court today in one of the biggest human trafficking cases ever in this country. The Filipino national, who’s been detained in custody for over two years, is…

Denmark is looking for a country that will accept 10,000 cubic meters of nuclear waste from the Risø research centre. Parliament voted unanimously in 2003 to bury the waste in an underground storage…

‘The Danes’ Party’, a new nationalist movement formed by breakaway members of the neo-Nazi Danish National Socialist Movement (NDNS), will stand for election in the upcoming municipal and regional elections in September. 23-year-old…

A cross-party parliamentary majority has agreed on the schedule, and conditions, for the Danish military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The ‘Afghanistan Plan, 2013-2014’, states that even though Danish combat troops will have left by…

Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal acknowledged yesterday that it was an ‘impossible mission’ to win the war against the Taleban in Afghanistan. Speaking at a press conference after a parliamentary majority had approved the…

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen offered quick praise for Denmark’s Afghanistan Plan, Tuesday. The former Danish prime minister said Denmark is one of the NATO members that has sent the clearest message…