Mayor of Copenhagen Frank Jensen (S) has banned the city’s 45,000 municipal employees from flying with Ryanair on business trips. Ahead of this week’s courtroom battle between Copenhagen Airport unions and the Irish…

Danish soldiers and veterans have urged politicians to grant asylum to all interpreters who helped the Danish military in Afghanistan. After it was revealed last week that another interpreter has been denied asylum…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has moved top career diplomat Michael Starbæk Christensen from the Foreign Ministry to her own staff of advisors. Mr Christensen, Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard’s right-hand man, will cross over…

French energy giant Total has been accused of misleading the Danish authorities by promising to fully control the process of fracking at its shale gas exploration site in northern Jutland. The controversial site…

AP Moller-Maersk (APM) CEO Nils S. Andersen has warned that the shipping industry will continue to suffer from overcapacity amid slow-moving economic growth, even though the oil and shipping giant has reported first-quarter…

Shipper rides debt storm / Pension fund won’t sell off German bonds Torm: Debt-stricken Danish tanker operator Torm has posted its first quarterly net profit in five years thanks to higher freight rates,…

Politics/Economy Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt continued to maintain she was telling the truth in February when she claimed security around the Krystalgade synagogue was increased ‘immediately’ after the initial terror alert, even though…

The Danish Ministry of Defense has just sent a 7-year framework for the maintenance of Danish warships out to EU-companies, worth a value of DKK 700 million. This leaves both the Liberals and…

Wind turbines are a good start, but vehicle use is still leading to excessive greenhouse has emissions, according to the Ecological Council and the Danish Society for Engineers. It is especially the unwillingness…

Defense Minister Nicolai Wammen (S) praised the work of Danish troops in Iraq during his first official visit to the Al Asad Air Base on Wednesday. “The Danish soldiers perform an important task under…