279 refugees have withdrawn their application for asylum so far this year and, new figures show, the majority of them have returned home to their native country. 124 have gone back to Iran,…

The EU Commission has lowered its growth expectation for the Danish economy this year but is still far too optimistic, leading Danish economists claim. In its Spring Forecast, published yesterday, the Commission projects…

The government and its allies have reached agreement on new safeguards to strengthen citizens’ rights in their dealings with the National Tax Authority (SKAT). The agreed ‘tax package’ includes a new department, under…

Evidence collected against a notorious former Danish Nazi has mysteriously disappeared from the national archives. Berlingske reports that documents concerning 91-year-old Helmuth Leif Rasmussen, who by his own account was present at the…

Embassies sending out invitations to receptions or national days are going to have to post them sooner in the future after MPs voted to scrap first-class deliveries to save money. Customers using the…

Denmark now has it’s first-ever legislation regarding ‘operations in outer space’ after a unanimous parliamentary majority voted for the ‘space law’, Tuesday. In future any space-related activities – such as sending objects into…

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The Danish economy isn’t strong enough right now to live up to NATO’s target of at least 2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence spending, Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen said yesterday…

As well as rejecting the proposal for an increase in the military budget, Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen has also dismissed special ambassador Peter Taksøe Jensen’s recommendation that more foreign aid money should be…

Denmark is pushing the EU Commission to allow border control for the next two years. In a joint letter fired off to Brussels, Monday, Integration Minister Inger Støjberg, alongside her counterparts from Germany,…