Copenhagen City Council politicians have expressed concern about the prospect of a major new mosque in the capital. City Hall’s Technical & Planning Committee has already granted the Islamic Faith Society dispensation to…

Many jobless Danes fear they could be pushed to the back of the unemployment queue by the government’s focus on refugees. Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has put getting refugees and asylum seekers…

The government will put forward proposals to redeploy the F-16 warplanes that were withdrawn from the international coalition’s battle with the Islamic State last year and expand its mission by sending 400 military…

Aarhus City Council will deny local Muslims the right to build a great mosque in Denmark’s ‘second-city’. The council had originally agreed to sell a piece of public-owned land to a group of…

Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen has condemned the Turkish authorities’ takeover of Zaman, the country’s most widely circulated newspaper, in the latest crackdown by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on freedom of the…

A Danish journalist deported from Turkey last month for allegedly posing a ‘threat to national security’ said Turkey deserves its low spot place on the Press Freedom Index. Claus Blok Thomsen, a correspondent…

The government has dismissed the Conservatives’ demand for a supplementary amendment to the much-criticised agriculture bill that led to the resignation of former environment minister Eva Kjer Hansen last week and ended a controversy…

Business Minister Troels Lund Poulsen has acknowledged that capital requirements for Danish mortgage banks will probably be tightened when the European Union adapts proposals from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. From Reuters…

Crown Princess Mary has created a media stir abroad by refusing to wear a headscarf during an official visit to Saudi Arabia last week. The British Daily Mail reports how the Princess followed…

Denmark is phasing out support for Ghana’s health sector after 22 years of technical and financial assistance. At the launch of a report documenting the achievements of Danish-sponsored aid over the past 22…