Maersk Line’s impressive Q1 profit /  ‘P3’ container freight alliance delayed / Major US order for Vestas Maersk: A.P. Moller-Maersk’s (APM) profits on its container shipping business more than doubled in the first…

Under-fire leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen was given a unanimous show of support by the the Liberals’ executive committee after a crisis meeting in Copenhagen last night. After grilling the former prime minister for…

Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s expenses problems don’t appear to have had any effect on Liberal voters in the countdown to Sunday’s EU election. A new Epinion poll for DR News gives the party 22.4%,…

Even if a majority rejects the European Patent Court in Sunday’s referendum Denmark could still join up. During parliamentary question time, Tuesday, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt stressed that because  parliament has already accepted…

EU criticism in Denmark has traditionally been a left-wing issue but the nationalist Danish People’s Party (DPP) look like emerging as the big winner in Sunday’s EU election. The Socialist People’s Party (SPP)…

Denmark ranks high amongst the EU countries with the strongest opposition to East-European workers. In a new EUvox survey, 40 per cent of the Danish electorate agree that ‘EU citizens’ right to work…

Denmark has dropped its resistance to lifting the EU ban on arming Syrian rebels. In a complete U-turn from previous policy, Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard now says that providing rebels with weapons is…

For the third time over the past few months, a terrorist group has claimed that a Danish national has committed a suicide attack in Iraq. The Danish suicide bomber was identified as ‘Abu…

Multinational medical company Coloplast has received DKK45m (€6m) in EU funding for jobs that have been relocated from Denmark to Hungary, the powerful 3F trade union claims. Even though EU rules forbid financial…

New strategy for Maersk’s fifth core business unit / Postive Q1 figures for insurer / Dane is new Nasdaq boss Mærsk: Shipping Watch reports that the final details of a new combined strategy…