The Danish People’s Party has gained support despite a number of recent negative issues. The biggest party on the right was ordered to repay EU funding it spent on a political campaign last…

The Confederation of Danish Industries (DI) has welcomed the climate deal agreed at the Paris COP21 climate conference after two weeks of intense negotiations. The agreement, announced Saturday, is the first to commit…

The government’s policies don’t live up to the lofty ambitions of the climate deal agreed at the Paris COP21 climate conference, the Danish Energy Association (DEA) said yesterday. Despite the positivism of the…

Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen has distanced himself from the previous Social Democrat government’s tough stance on Israel and called for a more ‘balanced’ policy. However the government’s enthusiastic support for the EU’s recent…

While criminality in Denmark is generally decreasing, cyber-crime is on the rise – over the past year the number of cases involving credit card fraud on the internet, false e-mails requesting bank details,…

Politics/Economy The government slightly revised down its economic growth expectation for 2015 in its latest Economic Review published by the Ministry of Finance – gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow 1.4…

Integration Minister Inger Støjberg is preparing to run a new anti-refugee media campaign in Middle East newspapers despite criticism from parliament’s ombudsman who characterised the original advert, placed in a number of Lebanese…

Refugees risk having their cash and valuables seized by the Danish authorities to pay for food and lodging while their application for residency is being processed, if the government’s latest restrictions are passed…

Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen has dismissed calls to reopen the Iraq Commission despite criticism from the UN. In a new report published to coincide with 67th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human…

The government’s plan to force transport companies to check refugees’ passports and identification while they’re still on German soil will damage the close Danish-German relationship, a top politician from the border state of…