Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal has urged Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, to resign and help the civil war-torn country’s transition towards democracy. In a rare speech held on Sunday in front of 2,000 cheering…

A new study by Forest & Landscape at the University of Copenhagen shows that, if residents cooperate, it is possible to increase development in outlying, struggling areas of Denmark. In the research, senior…

In its latest figures from 2011, Statistics Norway determined that the number of Danes who commute to Norway for work has increased by 42 per cent over the past two years; many are…

Struggling Scandinavian airline SAS has accused its cut-price rival, the Irish Ryanair, of consistently and wilfully falsifying the weight of its aircraft on take-off to evade millions in air traffic control charges. SAS’s…

Employers in the 98 municipalities are starting to show support for the government’s proposal that public-sector employees’ salaries should be regulated by the private sector, despite experts and employee organisations warning that such…

A respected think-tank in the US is calling for action against Denmark and seven other countries to stop manipulating their currency to bolster international trade. In a new report by the Peterson Institute…

Justice Minister Morten Bødskov (Social Democrats, SD) is receiving pressure from his party colleagues in the Parliamentary Legal Committee to respond to party whip Henrik Sass Larsen’s accusations against the Security Intelligence Service…

The Treasury Ministry’s former permanent secretary, Peter Loft, is being honoured by Copenhagen Business School (CBS), despite the fact that he has still not been cleared of unlawfully interfering with Prime Minister Helle…

Almost 500 companies went bankrupt every month in 2012, according to the Danish Chamber of Commerce and Experian, which provides credit information and financial data. In total, 5,634 Danish companies closed down last…

Pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk is preparing an application for approval of a new drug to combat the global obesity epidemic – and it has sales potential of up to DKK22bn. Denmark’s most valuable…