A new Tax Ministry study shows that although many welfare recipients have been given a greater incentive to work since 2013, there’s still a lot more to be done to encourage the unemployed…

Just 89 people applied for asylum in this country over the past week, the lowest figure since temporary border control was imposed at the start of January. A total of 2,727 refugees have…

Radical 20-year-old Muslim poet Yahya Hassan has been charged with shooting a 17-year-old male youth. Hassan, the son of Palestinian immigrants who fled from Lebanon in the 1980’s, has sold more than 100,000…

Danish People’s Party (DPP) leadership has distanced itself from a former local constituency chairman who yesterday celebrated the death of former prime minister Anker Jørgensen and compared him to Hitler. While politicians joined…

Consumer confidence fell for a third straight month in March to its lowest level in five months, survey data from Statistics Denmark revealed Monday. The monthly survey asks a cross section of the…

Denmark’s largest bank, Danske Bank, has been reported to the police by the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA), the banking sector’s watchdog, for violation of the money laundering act, the FSA said in…

Danish technology showing Americans how to conserve water will be highlighted at the White House in Washington DC today in an exhibition to mark the UN’s ‘World Water Day’. Grundfos, the world’s largest…

The government has agreed to send 20 Danish customs officials to help the Greek authorities enforce the EU’s agreement with Turkey, signed Friday. Under the terms of the deal, the Greek authorities will…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and his counterparts in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland have been invited by President Barak Obama to the White House on May 13th discuss a range of issues,…

Former Danish prime minister Anker Jørgensen, who led the economy through two oil crises while the country recorded its slowest growth in the postwar era, died on Sunday at the age of 93….