Danish wind energy giant Vestas has posted surprisingly strong 2013 accounts, with a pre-tax loss of just DKK269m compared to DKK5.3bn the previous year. The last time the company turned a profit was…

Belgium-based shipping line Euronav has finalised the deal announced last month to buy 15 Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC) from Maersk Tankers for DKK5.4bn ($980m). Maersk Tankers said the divestment is part of…

The new Soc Lib/Soc Dem government, led by Denmark’s two ‘first ladies’ – Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Margrethe Vestager – is determined to stick to the ‘more jobs, better welfare’ agenda laid out when…

New Minister of Foreign Affairs Marin Lidegaard has assumed responsibility for a ministry that he once suggested should be closed down. In an op-ed piece published by Politiken ten years ago, ‘Goodbye to…

Despite the Prime Minister’s optimism, opposition parties are far from impressed by yet another cabinet re-shuffle. Danish People’s Party (DPP) leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl asked why the new ministers hadn’t been given top…

Leading political commentator Hans Engell believes the government is taking a major risk by making former minister for ecclesiastical affairs Manu Sareen (SL) responsible for integration. After being handed the  new collective ‘super…

Newly installed Tax Minister Morten Østergaard (Soc. Lib) won’t be removing the freeze on the property evaluation tax, even though he’d like to. On his first day at the ministry, Mr Østergaard acknowledged…

The big smiles and the Prime Minister’s optimism as she presented her new cabinet, Monday, can’t disguise the fact that the government is heading for a ’bumpy ride’, according to Berlingske’s political analyst,…

Military intelligence (FE) has rejected allegations that the NSA spied on Danish politicians and diplomats ahead of the COP-15 climate conference in Denmark four years ago but admitted that the US agency could…

An increasing number of Jewish people in this country feel they need to conceal signs of their religion when in public to avoid provocation. A new report by the Department for Reporting of…