Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has stressed the ‘optimism’ of the new tripartite coalition but a new Wilke poll for Jyllands-Posten reveals widespread voter apathy – if an election was held today the…

The police officer who was shot in the head at close range outside a police station, Tuesday morning, has died. After initial reports he was in stable condition the officer’s condition worsened throughout…

170 criminal foreign nationals have been handed ‘conditional deportation’ orders more than once since 2010, new Justice Ministry figures show. And over the same period 30 have been received orders three times and…

The new government has dropped plans to impose a smoking ban at business schools. As part of an ambitious anti-cancer package put forward in August, health minister at the time, Sophie Løhde, called for…

Denmark’s feisty EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has slapped three major banks with fines totaling €485m ($519.7m) for colluding to manipulate a benchmark interest rate. JP Morgan was fined €337m, HSBC €33m and…

Denmark’s industrial production fell sharply in October after rising in the previous month. The latest figures from Statistics Denmark, released Wednesday, showed industrial production, excluding pharmaceuticals, plunged 10.3 percent month-over-month in October, reversing…

The Danish economy is heading towards a ‘boom’ period but lacks the manpower needed to support sustainable growth, National Bank Governor Lars Rohde warned yesterday. In its latest quarterly review the Bank downgrades…

Danish toy giant Lego has grown rapidly over the past ten years, particularly in the U.S., and is determined not to let President-elect Trump’s warning of trade barriers and protectionism get in the…

East European workers in this country have often been accused of ‘welfare hopping’ or undercutting Danish workers, but a new study shows they have made a positive contribution to the state since 2006….

A police officer remains in critical condition this morning after being shot in the head outside Albertslund police station, west of Copenhagen, early Tuesday. The suspect, a 26-year-old mentally deranged man, was detained…