Denmark has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world. The birth rate in this country is at a 25-year-low, leading to political calls for women to have more children. In the…

Does an immigrant to this country ever become a ‘Dane’? That’s the question posed by former US Ambassador to Denmark, Laurie Fulton, in a blog for the online Huffington Post in which she…

Politics/Economy At the state opening of parliament, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt made a direct appeal to the 200,000 centre-left voters who’ve deserted the government since the 2011 election. She also claimed that Denmark…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said last night that things are looking up there’s nothing to be gloomy about. In response to the negativism expressed by the Liberals’ policy spokesperson, Ellen Trane Nørby, during…

Denmark has the second-highest number of public sector employees per in the world – 153 per 1,000 citizens, just slightly less than Norway, posing a major threat to competiveness and economic growth, according…

The Liberals’ own youth wing (VU) has dismissed party leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s zero public sector growth proposal as ‘lacking ambition’ and urged him to fight for a reduced public sector with minus…

The Liberals want a cap on social benefits reintroduced to encourage welfare recipients to look for work. In response to new Finance Ministry figures showing that the state saves around DKK180,000 every time…

Opposition leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen has challenged Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt to come down hard on the Red/Green Alliance, the government’s guarantor of a parliamentary majority, in the EU Patent Court dispute. The…

The government has been urged to make a ‘strong and unequivocal’ protest to Moscow after a Russian court charged a Danish Greenpeace activist with piracy, Wednesday. The Red/Green Alliance’s environment spokesman, Per Clausen,…

Danes’ alcohol consumption has fallen significantly over the past decade but they still hold the European record in drinking. Ahead of this year’s annual alcohol awareness campaign, new Statistics Denmark figures show that…