The government’s claim that unemployment is falling is ‘grossly exaggerated’ according to labour market economists and experts who warned against ‘over optimism’. After the lowest jobless figures for four years in February, Prime…

The Danish economy’s slow but steady signs of improvement may have reduced the need for a new stimulus package. Despite demands from the industrial, construction, and retail sectors for more cuts in punitive…

Politicians on both sides of the aisle are demanding more power for elected officials and less to civil servants and expert commissions. Two ‘up and coming’ MP’s from parliament’s two biggest parties, the…

The head of a controversial mosque in Braband, near Aarhus, has rejected accusations that he supports terrorism. Oussama El-Saadi was characterised as a ‘cowardly dog’ by the Liberals’ policy spokesperson, Inger Støjberg, after…

Denmark has become such an attractive country for thieves that Romanian criminals are passing on information to people back home about how easy it is to rob houses in this country. Danish police…

Vladimir Putin has accused NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen of secretly recording a conversation between them. The Russian President said Thursday that as Danish prime minister, ‘sometime between 2001-09′, Mr Fogh Rasmussen recorded a…

Denmark has awarded the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the largest public funder of projects to improve the global environment, a DKK435m grant. Minister of Development Mogens Jensen said the money is drastically needed…

Under the headline ‘Something Rotten’ the respected global British news, finance, and politics weekly, The Economist, casts serious doubts on the sustainability of the low-interest mortgage schemes in this country. From The Economist: …

Political commentators agreed yesterday that the Social Democrats’ ’Spring offensive’ against the Danish People’s Party (DPP) is the first shot of the election campaign. They said the Social Democrats’ claim that the DPP’s…

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