Retail purchases with the national debit card, Dankort, rose 5.8 percent in May from a year earlier to DKK 33 bn ($5 billion), card payment services firm Nets said on Monday. But despite…

The minority, Liberal led government approaches its first anniversary with yet another thumbs-down from voters. In a new survey by business weekly A4, cabinet ministers are given the lowest approval ranking of any…

The cost of imposing border control and other anti-refugee restrictions has proved to be more expensive than originally estimated. It’s now expected that the temporary border control re-introduced on January 4th will cost…

Only 99 refugees and migrants applied for asylum in Denmark last week, including just one Iraqi national and ten Syrians. 32 were from Afghanistan and 56 from ‘other countries’. It was the eighth…

The private sector created 11,800 new jobs between the fourth quarter of 2015 and the end of the first quarter of this year, while over the same period the public sector lost 3,200…

New information suggests the process of choosing a new type of fighter jet for the Danish Air Force wasn’t as fair and transparent as claimed. The government finally agreed to purchase 27 F-35A stealth fighter…

The upcoming British referendum on EU membership will have little short term impact on Denmark, according to Berlingske’s political editor Bent Winther, but the traditional pro-EU parties will come under increasing pressure from…

Former Social Democrat prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt managed to create far more jobs than her successor, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, a new study by the right-leaning CEPOS think-tank shows. Although the government has passed…

Over half of the rejected asylum seekers awaiting deportation at a refugee ‘exit centre’ in Ikast have gone missing. 84 rejected asylum seekers have been sent to the Ikast camp, a former open…

Prominent Danish human rights activist Zainab al-Khawaja is returning to Denmark after being released from prison in Bahrain. Zainab al-Khawaja is the daughter of well-known activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, also a Danish citizen, who himself is…