The Red/Green Alliance is catching up on the ruling Social Democrats in the polls. According to a new Epionon poll for DR News, 14.9 per cent of the electorate would vote for the…

Lars Løkke Rasmussen comes out top in a new voter survey of which party leader is deemed ‘most suitable’ to be prime minister, just ahead of Social Liberal leader Margrethe Vestager. The current…

The latest business cycle index from Statistics Denmark provides more bad news for the industrial and construction sectors. Confidence in construction fell from minus 21 to minus 24 in April, the lowest level…

The Conservatives have urged Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal to abandon his opposition to supplying Syrian rebels with arms. Anglo-French efforts to arm Syrian rebels have been met with a wall of resistance from…

Denmark’s biggest cities will be overcrowded and populated primarily by young people in the future, new population projections by Statistics Denmark show. At the same time, the elderly will reside in depopulated country…

Danes remain the most heavily-taxed people within the EU. The latest figures from the EU’s statistical agency, Eurostat show that the ratio of tax revenue to GDP in 2011 was highest in Denmark…

Copenhagen Town Hall has set up a ‘wage busting’ unit to crack down on companies and suppliers employed by the local authorities that underpay employees. Mayor of Copenhagen Frank Jensen said the new…

The stimulus package agreed between the government and opposition last week is a serious setback for the climate, the environmental organisation NOAH, ‘Friends of the Earth Denmark’ claims. After parliament passed new environment…

One solitary Dane appears on the Financial Times’ Foreign Policy magazine’s list of the 500 most powerful people on the planet. While Norway and Sweden have three men each, including five from the…

Copenhagen eatery Noma, which has provided worldwide attention for Denmark,  can no longer boast of being the ‘world’s best’. After three years at number one, Danish chef Rene Redzepi’s establishment has slipped to number two, displaced…