The Supreme Court will rule today on whether two immigrant families can be thrown out of their apartments because their sons set fire to a local kindergarten in 2008. The local residents association…

Although an increasing number of politicians have spoken out against the ‘nanny state’ over the past two years their words have fallen on deaf ears. Despite the controversy surrounding ‘Work-shy Robert’ and ‘Poverty…

New e-mail evidence presented to the Tax Commission investigating the ‘Taxgate’ affair indicates that top tax officials willfully tried to mislead parliament’s ombudsman. The e-mail correspondence between the Copenhagen Tax Department and the…

When the government’s budget for 2014 is published next week it won’t be a catalogue of new and expensive public-spending proposals, Socialist People’s Party leader Anette Vilhelmsen warned yesterday at the start of…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has been dubbed ’Hamburger Helle’ by the renowned British news magazine, The Economist, a reflection of the ongoing debate about the halal meat-only policy at some Copenhagen kindergartens and…

Since 2007 the number of new business start-ups in this country has fallen by 25 per cent, according to a new OECD report that reveals only entrepreneurs in struggling Spain have performed worse….

The National Board of Health has recommended that the controversial free heroin scheme should be extended to include crack addicts too. A Board spokesman said allowing doctors to prescribe heroin to needle addicts…

After six years of falling house prices confidence has finally returned to the property market. Mortgage lender Nykredit’s latest housing indicator shows that the percentage of consumers that expects ‘higher’ or ‘much higher’…

State-run energy company DONG has announced plans to fire up to 400 workers over the next few weeks as part of a streamlining operation aimed at slashing costs by DKK300m next year. The…

Egypt’s embassy in Copenhagen, claiming that news coverage of the troubles in its country has been too one-sided, has sent images and YouTube video clips to Danish media outlets showing members of the…