Two new opinion polls, Monday, gave contrasting views of the election campaign. The latest Voxmeter poll showed the government and its centre-left allies in the lead for the first time since November 2013,…

A ‘dirty tricks’ Facebook campaign targeting Lars Løkke Rasmussen and the opposition could prove to be a decisive factor in the outcome of the election, communications experts claim. The mud-slinging ‘Inside the Blue…

A spokesman for the controversial Grimhøj Mosque in Aarhus has urged Muslims to boycott the general election as ‘democracy and Islam aren’t compatible.’ In a TV interview, and on Facebook, Youseff Loubani, called…

European Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva has defended Danish Commissioner Margrethe Vestager’s right to express an opinion about the upcoming election in this country after Danish People’s Party MEP Morten Messerschmidt threatened to lodge an official…

The Red/Greens are trying to make the government’s controversial DONG deal a campaign issue. The far-left party’s titular leader, Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen, yesterday called on all parties to reveal whether they support even more divestment…

In all secrecy a Danish citizen has for the past two months been remanded in custody on suspicion of actively supporting the Islamic State. Based on information from a ‘number of Islamist sources’,…

Danish corn is of such poor quality that when customers in Asia order food grain in the EU they often insert a clause into the contract: ‘Danish excluded’. The DLG Group, one of…

APM fires strikers/Danish PMI down/Danske Bank signs Mobile Pay deal APM: A.P. Moller-Maersk’s ports and harbours division, APM Terminals (APMT), has fired 130 dockworkers at its general cargo terminal in Callao, Peru, where…

Helle Thorning-Schmidt emerged as the winner of the first head to head TV debate with opposition leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen last night, a majority of viewers said. In a snap poll taken immediately…

7.59, in conjunction with the University Post, looks forward to greeting ambassadors and diplomats at our traditional election briefing. As soon as we have all the details we’ll let you know the time…