The Social Democrats and Danish People’s Party (DPP) have joined together to demand more welfare for children and the elderly, in response to reports that refugees could be forced to wait up to…

Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen has declared himself ready for a ‘bitter leadership battle’ if, and when, Lars Løkke Rasmussen steps down. Even though he declined to challenge Mr Løkke Rasmussen two years ago…

High-profile human rights campaigner Lisbeth Zornig Andersen has been fined DKK22,500 (€2,983) for smuggling a family of Syrian migrants Denmark to Sweden. Her husband was fined the same amount for taking the family…

Norway Prime Minister Erna Solberg has called for pan-Nordic agreement on border control. After a working lunch with Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipilä, Saturday, Ms Solberg said all the Nordic countries need to…

Copenhagen ties with Los Angeles and Seoul as the world’s 8th most-expensive city in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Worldwide Cost of Living Survey, aimed at expats and business travellers. Singapore is again…

Denmark is the 4th most literate country in the world according to a new study in literate behavior and literacy in more than 60 countries. Nordic countries dominate ‘The World’s Most Literate Nations…

Politics/Economy The government would face defeat if an election was held right now – the  average of all February opinion polls showed support for the ruling Liberals has dropped to just 17.1 per…

Two Danish extremists are among the Islamic State fighters named in a cache of 22,000 documents obtained by German intelligence, Berlingske and Information report today. The documents, thought to be from a border crossing…

The prosecution spent the first day of the Copenhagen terror trial trying to establish a direct link between the four alleged conspirators and 22-year-old Omar El-Hussein who killed a filmmaker and a security…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen urged everybody to ‘stop whining’ – and not least his finance minister Claus Hjorth Frederiksen – in a speech to the Annual General Meeting of Local Government Denmark…