Business leaders predict the government’s draft budget for 2015, published Tuesday, won’t be sufficient to sustain the fragile economic upswing. Head of the Danish Construction Association, Lars Storr-Hansen, expressed concern that the transition…

The government’s draft budget signals a new era in Danish politics as the centre-left coalition targets an agreement with its traditional allies on the left – the Socialist People’s Party (SPP) and the…

Denmark is definitely emerging from the economic crisis, Minister for the Economy Margrethe Vestager claimed yesterday as she presented the government’s Economic Survey 2014, shortly after Finance Minister Bjarne Corydon laid out the…

European social democrats are ready to drop Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt as a candidate for President of the European Council because she’s ‘too liberal’, according to acknowledged German news service Spiegel Online  whose sources…

Despite the EU’s plea to Denmark to accept more refugees the government expects a drop in asylum seekers next year. Although Justice Minister stated last week that at least 10,000 asylum seekers will have…

The Syrian regime, led by President Assad, has played an integral role in the rise of the Islamic State’s (IS) in the region but is now itself at danger from the brutal jihadists,…

Finance minister Bjarne Corydon has dangled a multi-billion carrot in front of the Socialist People’s Party (SPP) and the Red/Green Alliance. If the two-left wing parties, the government’s guarantor of a parliamentary majority,…

The government has reduced its deficit estimate for this year and maintained its forecast for 2015, when its domestic financing needs would grow by almost 50 percent, the draft budget, seen by Reuters…

If it was up to the general public, better welfare would top the agenda of next year’s budget. In a new Wilke poll for Jyllands-Posten, 38.6% of the electorate express hope for a…

The Liberals have dismissed Brazilian criticism of their proposal to restrict immigration from under-developed countries by claiming that there will always be countries disappointed that they aren’t on the ‘preferred partners’ list. In response…