Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has declared herself willing to consider a Liberal (V) proposal that would stop people travelling from Denmark to Syria or Iraq without permission from the authorities. During prime minister’s…

Justice Minister Mette Frederiksen is considering new measures in the fight against terror, such as the permanent surveillance of flight traffic, intelligent border control, and keeping records of people’s internet activities. In an…

The government will do everything within its power to protect Jews in this country, the ruling Social Democrats’ justice spokeswoman, Trine Bramsen, said yesterday after head of the Jewish Community in Denmark, Dan…

The Liberals’ policy spokeswoman, Inger Støjberg, has been reprimanded by party leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen after she criticised Jyllands-Posten for refusing to re-publish the Mohammed cartoons in sympathy with Charlie Hebdo. The former…

International energy companies have given up hope of finding oil off the coast of western Greenland. Norwegian Statoil, French GDF Suez, and Danish DONG Energy have handed back their drilling permits after acknowledging…

The number of people listed on the notorious RKI collection agency fell last year, a sign that the economy is improving. 231,804 were registered as bad debtors at the end of 2014, 1,222…

Crown Prince Frederik has been accused of acting irresponsibly by driving across the Great Belt Bridge, Sunday, when it was closed to all traffic due to stormy weather. While hundreds of motorists were…

Danish Jews have demanded better protection from the authorities in the wake of the Paris tragedy. Dan Rosenberg Asmussen, head of the Jewish Community in Denmark, said the events in Paris came as…

The government’s aim of making all immigrants earn their social benefits appears doomed to failure after new Employment Ministry figures showing that 83 per cent of the 41,000 jobless non-western immigrants are deemed…

Copenhagen Police’s Task Force Pusher Street unit seized 2.2 tons of cannabis in the ‘free state’ of Christiania last year, with a street value of around DKK116m ($19m), in addition to DKK16m ($2.7m)…