Denmark has moved up two places on the World Bank’s annual wealthiest countries list. Luxembourg, where the per capita income is $111,162, leads the way followed by oil-rich Norway in second place, with…

The Social Democrats’ acting traffic spokesman, Ole Hækkerup, has called for ‘tit fot tat’ legislation if Germany imposes a toll on all motorists on German motorways. He dismissed the proposal for a €10…

International donors, including Denmark, who withheld aid over Uganda’s anti-gay bill “misinterpreted” the law whose main focus was to stop promotion of homosexuality to children and others, the Ugandan government said yesterday. The…

The financial sector’s watchdog, The Danish Financial Services Authority (FSA), has carried out just 29 check-ups on IT security at 407 banks, pension funds, and insurance companies over the past five years –…

Private equity firms in Denmark have a cash pile of about DKK10bn ($1.82bn) to spend and the number of deals this year is expected to rise fourfold, the Danish Venture Capital and Private…

Social Liberal leader Margrethe Vestager handed Queen Margrethe a list of conditions before agreeing to join the centre-left coalition after the 2011 election. Confidential documents obtained by Jyllands-Posten reveal that while all other…

A number of leading Social Democrats have called for amendments to the unemployment insurance (dagpenge) scheme ahead of the next election. Cross-party unemployment reform from 2012, which reduced the entitlement period from four…

A ’hotline’ set up by jobcentres three months ago to help companies find Danish manpower has been a total fiasco. The phone has rung just 34 times – around once every three days…

The Social Democrats have denied reports that the government has slapped a ban on the import of Israeli goods produced on the West Bank. The ruling party’s foreign affairs spokesman, John Dyrby Paulsen,…

Two members of the Russian feminist punk rock protest group Pussy Riot have urged Denmark not to be afraid of criticising President Putin when he disregards human rights in Russia and other countries….