Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen embarks on a tricky mission today when he travels to Brussels to ask the EU to grant Denmark a parallel agreement on Europol. EU expert Rebecca Adler-Nissen of…

Catharina Sørensen, head of research at Think Tank EUROPA in Copenhagen, who at a 7.59 briefing ahead of last week’s referendum gave ambassadors and diplomats an excellent summary of the issues at stake,…

As reported by 7.59, Thursday, the government slightly revised down the country’s economic growth expectation for 2015 in its latest Economic Review published by the Ministry of Finance yesterday. Gross domestic product (GDP)…

Denmark’s consumer price inflation eased for the second straight month in November to the lowest level in nine months, figures from Statistics Denmark showed Thursday. The consumer price index rose 0.3 percent year-over-year…

The government has dismissed the initial draft text for a deal published at the Cop21 UN Climate Conference in Paris as ‘lacking ambition’. Energy & Climate Minister Lars Christian Lilleholt said the new…

The 2016 budget and the government’s growth stimulus package will increase CO2 emissions by 700,000 tons over the next three years. The figure, made public in an official parliamentary response from Energy &…

Only a small minority of refugees will be affected by the government’s move to restrict family reunification. Based on asylum statistics for the past few years around 80 per cent will still be…

Denmark is set to introduce the toughest anti-migration rules in Scandinavia, according to Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. The paper reports that under the new rules, refugees will be obliged to pay for accommodation on their own…

The relaxed monetary policy environment heightens the need for budget discipline, the Finance Ministry warns in its latest economic forecast to be published today. The economy will grow 1.4 percent this year, slightly…

Leading Danish economists agree that the long-awaited upswing this year has failed to materialise. In response to the government’s latest economic forecast (above), which predicts slower growth for 2015 than previously estimated, senior…