Vestas is seeking government permission to test the largest offshore wind turbine yet in a bid to catch up with German rival Siemens at the new frontier of wind energy. Papers submitted to…

Vietnam success for FLSmidth / APM Terminals aims for India FLSmidth: Copenhagen-based global engineering company FLSmidth has received an order worth approximately DKK302m (USD55m) from the Vietnamese National Oil and Gas Group Petrovietnam…

Politics/Economy Despite the Socialist People’s Party’s (SPP) problems during its time as a coalition partner, a survey showed that grass-roots supporters would still like the party to join a centre-left government after the…

The Social Democrats and Social Liberals have no wish to re-live the turmoil of the tripartite coalition that was disbanded after the Socialist People’s Party (SPP) pulled out earlier this year – that’s…

A local Danish People’s Party (DPP) politician has sparked off a new immigration controversy by stating there’s no reason to feel sorry for refugees who drown at sea. In response to a blog…

Diplomats say Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt is still in the running to become the next European Council president, but she may fall short because she is not from a euro zone country. According…

The public’s attitude towards the unemployed has become far more negative, new research shows. 20 per cent of all media coverage is disparaging about the jobless, compared to only 7 per cent 20 years…

Romanian nationals no longer head the ‘foreign crime’ statistics. Of the 1668 charges of burglary brought by the police department in the Zealand region (around Copenhagen) so far this year, 497 were against…

The European Commission took Denmark to court on Thursday for allowing the sale of snus, despite a European Union sales ban on the moist oral snuff. Sweden, a snus producer, is currently the…

A.P. Moller-Maersk has announced an alliance with shipping company MSC on some of the world’s busiest shipping routes after China scuppered a planned tie-up between the two companies and CMA. The Danish shipping…