The government will stop welfare handouts to foreign fighters who travel to Syria or Iraq. Justice Minister Søren Pind said there have been ‘ridiculous situations’ in which jihadists claiming social benefits in this…

The rich are getting richer while the poor lag even further behind – a new report by the ‘wise men’ of the Economic Council shows that over the past 25 years the earnings…

Nearly 200 cars have been torched in Copenhagen so far this year, with a dramatic increase over the past two months when about 80 automobiles were burned. The spate of fires has created…

Despite four years of negative interest rates that could have fuelled a price boom, Denmark has enjoyed its longest period of low inflation since the Great Depression, according to Danske Bank. The National…

Plans to build Denmark’s first biorefinery in north-west Jutland have been scrapped due to a lack of political support and financing issues. In summer 2014 the project was awarded DKK293m (€39.37m) in EU…

In a move to cut costs, Denmark’s biggest bank, Danske, has asked 8,000 employees if they would be willing to consider voluntary redundancy. The bank is under pressure from low interest rates and…

At a press conference alongside his British counterpart, Therese May, Monday, Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said it was ‘tragic’ that UK voters had decided in favour of Brexit but he would continue…

Danish exports to the UK have fallen dramatically since the Brexit vote in June. The latest Statistics Denmark figures show one-in-five Danish companies have suffered since British voters chose to leave the EU, with…

No Danish warplanes have been involved in missions that caused civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria, Defence Minister Peter Christiansen said yesterday. After briefing parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee the Minister confirmed that 55…

The government has extended the use of the military’s mobile ground-based radar in Iraq by a year. The system was originally set up in January after Danish F16s were withdrawn from bombing raids…