Nearly three thousand people have left the Church of Denmark (Folkekirken)  following a recent campaign by the Atheist Society. Kristeligt Dagbladet (Christian News) reports that nearly 3,000 Danes cancelled their membership last month…

Denmark’s booming bio-pharmaceutical sector is reaping the rewards of a unique ownership structure with deep-pocketed, non-profit foundations, according to Medical Xpress, a web-based medical and health news service, which reports that in a country ‘where…

Politics / Economy Liberal Alliance MP Joachim B. Olsen sparked off a controversy by suggesting that welfare clients living in remote, rural regions should receive lower social benefits than city dwellers – the…

Welfare clients living in remote, rural regions should receive lower social benefits than city dwellers, according to Liberal Alliance MP Joachim B. Olsen. In an interview with the trade union funded weekly newsletter,…

In a surprising move the normally ‘welfare friendly’ Socialist People’s Party (SPP) want to see more pressure being put on immigrant women to find a job. Ahead of the party’s annual conference this…

Queen Margrethe’s husband has relinquished the title of ‘Prince Consort’ and in future will be referred to only as ‘His Royal Highness Prince Henrik’. Lene Balleby, the communications director for the Royal Family, told tabloid daily…

The news that an usually mild winter has caused the ice cap in Greenland to melt at an alarming rate has gone all around the world. Under the headline ‘Greenland sees record-smashing early…

Denmark and Mexico concluded a number of political and commercial deals during President Enrique Peña Nieto official state visit that ended Thursday, aimed at strengthening trade between the two countries that totalled DKK4.4bn…

Trade in goods and services between Denmark and China reached an all-time high of DKK116.6 bn (114.6 billion yuan) in 2015, registering a year-on-year increase of six percent, the latest figures from Statistics…

In the midst of the ‘Arab Spring’ in 2010-11, which inspired anti-government demonstrations throughout the Arab world, a Danish IT company was working behind the scenes to export invasive surveillance equipment to Saudi…