Ahead of next month’s municipal elections, local authorities have indicated that if they are given more funding they’d prefer to spend it on schools, ahead of the unemployed, care homes for the elderly,…

Shipping and oil giant A.P. Møller-Mærsk would consider selling off its Danish Supermarket division, which numbers national chains Netto, Føtex, and Bilka, ‘if the right buyer came along’. In an interview with Berlingske…

Police officers from Romania and other East Europan countries have enjoyed success in this country helping their Danish counterparts to solve break-ins and other crimes. In an official response to parliament’s Legal Affairs…

Development Minister Christian Friis Bach will face a grilling from both sides of parliament today when he fields questions about the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) controversy. After two weeks of criticism aimed…

Minister for Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal was rushed to hospital, Tuesday morning, after suffering  a blood clot (thrombus) in the heart. Doctors performed an angioplasty on the 61-year-old Minister, a procedure that involves…

The new government in Norway has frozen its €8m aid commitment to the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). The previous Norwegian government signed a cooperation agreement with the Korea-based organisation last year to…

Defence Minister Nikolaj Wammen said last night he’s looking forward to today’s meeting of the NATO-Russia Council in Brussels, despite growing signs of ‘Cold War behaviour’ as the EU seeks an increasingly close…

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) believes there’s no reason to criticise the USA for its use of unmanned drone aircraft in the fight against terrorism. In a report released Tuesday, Amnesty International called…

US Dollar down / Poor business marks for Copenhagen /  Farmers in debt $$$ The US dollar slid to a 2-year low against the euro, and subsequently the Danish krone (DKK5.4), Tuesday, after…

Development Aid Minister Christian Friis Bach won’t be asking Lars Løkke Rasmussen to reimburse the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) for his excessive travel expenses. Despite apologising for spending so much money on…