In the wake of last week’s terror attack on Copenhagen, the Danish People’s Party (DPP) has called for all applications from Syrian refugees for asylum to be suspended so the immigration authorities have…

Iran has reached out to Denmark in the fight against the militant Islamic State (IS). During a visit to Copenhagen, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran’s deputy minister for European and American affairs, said the IS…

A political majority has called for a system to ban ‘hate preachers’ from entering the country. The four opposition parties, with the backing of the Socialist People’s Party (SPP), have asked Justice Minister Mette…

The Liberals have again urged the government to wind up the Iraq Commission after its chairman quit, Thursday, citing internal working problems. The Commission was appointed in 2012 to investigate the decisions that led…

Nearly 10,000 public sector jobs have been cut since the government came to power in 2011, prompting praise from liberal think-tank CEPOS, normally not amongst Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s most enthusiastic supporters. New…

Denmark’s pension funds and insurance companies are increasingly hedging exposure to a weakening euro, putting more upward pressure on the Danish krone and potentially threatening its peg against the euro. From Reuters: Since…

Maersk shareholders get $6.6bn windfall / Maersk Line to invest in mega vessels / Fraud squad drops Danske Bank investigation Maersk windfall: Shipping and oil giant A.P. Møller-Maersk will hand shareholders a $6.6…

Lars Løkke Rasmussen has vowed to impose a total freeze on taxes and duties if he becomes prime minister after this year’s election. The Liberal leader’s ‘gift’ to the business sector comes in…

If the Liberals regain power this year they will scrap Denmark’s ambitious goal to become totally independent of fossil fuels by 2050. Although Denmark is a leader in terms of its policies for…

Financial daily Børsen’s political commentator Christopher Arzrouni believes Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt was faking it when she shed tears during the funerals of terror victims Dan Uzan and Finn Nørgaard. During a debate…