Banks could help repair their tattered reputation by making it very clear that they don’t offer tax avoidance services, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said last night, adding that the government is willing to…

The number of criminal charges against Eastern European travellers has risen sharply since 2011, new figures show. 7,490 people from 12 eastern countries, including the Baltic countries Poland, Belarus, and the Ukraine, were…

A Greek man was detained by Athens police on Tuesday after throwing a fistful of coins at Danish IMF representative Poul Thomsen outside the finance ministry, the state-run Athens News Agency said. Mr…

A new biography casts a harsh light on NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s premiership of Denmark between 2001-2009. Although the debate about the ex-PM’s political legacy since he left office has mainly…

Jyske Bank in Switzerland has reported public service TV network DR (Danmark’s Radio) to the police for using hidden cameras in a programme about tax shelters. In a documentary aired last night, an…

An increasing number of Danish nationals have set up  shell companies in the British Virgin Islands. A massive leaked list of offshore tax haven account holders, containing the names of 1,000 wealthy people…

The government of the Faroe Islands launched a trade dispute at the World Trade Organization on Monday to challenge a European Union ban on imports of Faroese herring and mackerel and restrictions on…

Copenhagen Town Hall, normally a bastion of left-wing politics, could have a right-wing majority in place by 2021. It might not happen at this month’s local government elections, or in 2017, but ever…

In the controversy that won’t go away, Liberal leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen has been forced to admit that he did in fact receive nearly DKK9,000 in subsistence allowance from the Green Global Growth…

After his final visit to Kabul and the Helmand province before Danish advisors pull out, Development Aid Minister Christian Friis Bach said there’s still a great deal of work to be done before…