The government has requested permission from the EU to extend temporary border control that expires on February 12th but it’s not enough for the Danish People’s Party (DPP). The party’s immigration spokesman, Martin…

Energy and Climate Minister Lars Christian Lilleholt will lead a large trade delegation to Mumbai next week even though relations between Denmark and India remain strained due to the Niels Holck arms affair….

Integration Minister Inger Støjberg has again urged refugees to return home to their native country if it’s safe for them to do so. In response to criticism of the government’s move to forcibly…

Taxpayers and companies’ debt to the state is expected to top DKK100bn ($16bn) this year, an all-time high, the Social Democrats’ tax spokesman said yesterday after a briefing from Tax Ministry officials. The…

Foreign affairs editors from Denmark’s leading newspapers agree on the issues that will dominate the news in 2017: Donald Trump’s first moves as President, the three major general elections in Europe, and the…

Denmark is awaiting a formal request from Seoul to extradite the daughter of Choi Soon-sil, the woman at the centre of the huge corruption scandal that has led to the impeachment of South…

Auto sales hit a new record-high in 2016 as nearly 223,000 vehicles were driven off showroom forecourts, New figures from The Danish Car Importers Association (DCIA) show a 7.3% increase on 2015, a result, according to…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen stressed the need for further labour market reforms in his televised New Year speech to the nation, Monday evening, even though the economy is recovering. He warned against…

Pushing through reforms will be difficult when so many people in this country are dependent upon welfare, the right-leaning think-tank CEPOS has warned. A new study by the think-tank, based on the latest…

In her traditional New Year address to the nation HM Queen Margrethe urged Danes to offer refugees a warm welcome but stressed that the state also needs to make demands on the newcomers….