The government has no plans to ease its fiscal policy. At her final press conference before the parliamentary summer break, Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt rejected calls from the ‘wise men’ of the…

The ‘wise men’ of the Economic Council have accused the government of an economic policy that requires excessive taxation to finance public expenditure. According to their latest report, over-taxing people to sustain public…

Questions are being asked as to why the Liberals have been given preferential treatment when parliament launches its British-style, one-on-one debates after the summer break. Conservative leader Lars Barfoed said it’s ‘undemocratic, indecent,…

The Niels Holck arms-dealing affair is obstructing the Danish fraud squad’s investigation of former Vestas chief financial officer Henrik Nørremark, accused of signing two unauthorised agreements in India that could have cost the…

Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal and Development Aid Minister Christian Friis Bach have green-lighted an extra DKK50m in aid to the Syrian people. They said that after two years of fighting and bombardment the…

Danes are no longer the most satisfied people in the world. A new OECD survey, Your Better Life Index, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential in the areas of…

The government has downwardly revised its growth forecasts for 2013 and 2014 again but there’s still cause for ‘very cautious’ optimism, Economy Minister Margrethe Vestager claimed Monday. After presenting the government’s latest Economic…

Public investment has helped to keep the wheels of the Danish economy going during the crisis but from 2014 it’s exports that will take over as the locomotive of growth, Economy Minister Margrethe…

The city of Copenhagen continues to outstrip all other regions of Denmark in economic growth. New figures from Nordea reveal that the capital is responsible for all growth in Denmark while the rest…

Minister for Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal said it was a ‘pity’ that the EU failed to agree on extending the arms embargo against Syria, Monday, but welcomed the deal to extend all EU…