The jobless queue shortened slightly between October and November, by 800 people, leaving 131,300 people unemployed. However, the official unemployment rate remains stuck at 5% for the fourth month in a row due…

The number of businesses forced to file for bankruptcy was the lowest for five years in 2014, new figures from credit ratings agency Bisnode show. 4,019 firms and companies had declared themselves bankrupt…

Maersk Oil has scaled back its oil exploration plans in Greenland, following other companies that have got ‘cold feet’ and pulled the plug on drillings in the arctic country. From Shipping Watch: Maersk…

Wind energy hits all-time high/Maersk ups freight rates/Bavarian gets ebola windfall Energy: Wind turbines generated a record amount of energy in Denmark last year, producing 39.1 per cent of consumers’’ total electricity usage….

Politicians are predicting a late Spring election but the ruling Social Democrats and leading opposition party, the Liberals (V), have already set the campaign wheels in motion. Prime Minister, Helle Thorning Schmidt has…

Thousands of immigrants have made their home in Copenhagen suburb Brøndby Stand, putting a strain on the local economy. Mayor Ib Terp acknowledged yesterday that immigrants are a ‘costly affair’ after a new…

The Danish People’s Party has urged its centre-right allies to address the fundamental question: Is immigration good for Denmark? After Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt visited a Bilka supermarket in the immigrant-dominated town of…

Only one-in-three Danes would be willing to go to war on behalf of Denmark. In a new international Gallup survey of 113 countries, only 37% of the Danish population say they be willing…

120 Danish troops on their way to Iraq this week will be stationed at a base in one of the most dangerous regions of the war-torn country. The Danish troops will act in…

Despite appeals from the Danish Cancer Society and Danish Lung Association, politicians on both sides of the aisle are reluctant to tighten anti-smoking legislation even though there’s been no decrease in the number…