Poor retail sales threaten upswing Despite six months of positive consumer confidence figures retail sales continue to fall. Positive consumer confidence since summer raised hopes of increased private spending and a much-needed boost…

Development Aid Minister Christian Friis Bach has resigned after questions were raised concerning his role in the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) affair. According to initial reports, a yet to be published Foreign…

Tuesday’s local elections provided much-needed relief for under pressure party leaders Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Lars Løkke Rasmussen, says Jyllands Posten’s political analyst Christine Cordsen – the Social Democrats avoided the potential disaster that…

The Social Democrats have called for a ban exit polls if the media refuses to regulate itself. A DR election projection published early Tuesday, based on very early exit polls, predicted disaster for…

The latest figures from the Manpower Capacity Survey (Arbejdskraftundersøgelsen) reveal a labour market that’s still treading water. The survey, by Statistics Denmark, seen as more realistic than the official jobless statistics, shows that…

Finance Minister Bjarne Corydon labelled the Red/Green Alliance ‘greedy’ yesterday after yet another round of budget negotiations failed to end in agreement. He said unless the far-left party is more willing to compromise…

Danish Military intelligence (FE) has acknowledged that it monitors millions of telephone calls abroad every month and shares the information with foreign agencies. In an interview with Politiken, head of FE, Thomas Ahrenkiel,…

Denmark and Uganda are to head negotiations aimed at raising $100bn by 2020 to help developing countries tackle climate change. When Denmark hosted COP15 in 2009 rich countries promised to help poor countries…

A Russian court has granted bail to a Danish Greenpeace activist. The 26-year-old Anne Mie Roer Jensen, alongside 29 crew members of Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise ship, had been held for over two months…

The Social Democrats slipped back but remain the country’s biggest party at local council level. Despite exit polls indicating that the party was heading for its worst local election drubbing since 1929 it…