Denmark is faced with a potential dilemma today when the EU Commission unveils its proposals to reform the so-called Dublin regulation rules on asylum, aimed at ensuring a fairer and more equal relocation…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has been dismissed as a ‘coward’ for refusing to be grilled by parliament’s Environment & Food Committee about the controversial agriculture bill, which led to the resignation of…

Around half of all Danish Islamic State sympathisers who have travelled abroad since 2011 have returned to this country again A new report by the Hague-based International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) reveals that…

Tax Minister Karsten Lauritzen has invited banks, accountants and tax lawyers to ‘informal but serious’ talks about tax shelters, after leaked documents from the Panamanian Mossack Fonsea law firm implicated Nordea and Jyske…

It isn’t just companies and rich Danes that have set up shell companies in Panama. A review of documents leaked from Mossack Fonseca by Politiken reveals that 51 Danish nationals have provided the…

A parliamentary candidate for the Alternative Party has previously equated Israel with Hitler, issued a bomb threat against Aarhus University, and called for infidelity to be made illegal. The ‘free thinking’ Alternatives were…

The government is hoping to find an economically viable solution for gas production in the North Sea, after A.P. Moller-Maersk’s threat to shut down the country’s main gas field. Maersk Oil has warned…

Hundreds of asylum seekers in this country are reportedly in the process of converting to Christianity. According to the Danish National Church’s asylum help wing (Folkekirkens Asylasamarbejde) at least 300 asylum seekers, the…

The ’jewellery law’ that provoked negative headlines for Denmark throughout the world when it was passed by parliament two months ago hasn’t yet been employed. The controversial confiscation policy, which has been compared…

Although Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen claimed that Denmark’s refugee policy is ‘misunderstood’ when he appeared before the in UN in Geneva in January for a review of Denmark’s human rights policies, Denmark has…