The Social Democrats have put forward four proposals to reduce the number of foreign EU students claiming generous Danish student (SU) grants. The party’s education spokeswoman, Mette Reissmann, said the number of students…

Apartment prices in the most attractive locations in Copenhagen are at a 10-year high. New figures from leading property website Boliga show prices are higher than in 2006 when the housing bubble burst…

Denmark’s balance of payments surplus decreased at the start of the year, as exports fell faster than imports. The latest Statistics Denmark figures show the seasonally adjusted trade surplus dropped to DKK 7.5…

The agricultural sector continues to struggle. Danish farmers are carrying a collective debt of DKK 380bn (around €50bn), sending shockwaves through the financial sector. Banks have lost DKK11bn (€1.5b) on struggling farms since…

Lego sells millions and millions of building blocks made in Mexico to the U.S. every year but despite the negative trade signals coming from the White House, the toy giant says there’s no…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has proposed postponing his Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim’s scheduled visit to Denmark next week, after the Netherlands, Germany, and other EU countries cancelled appearances by ministers supporting President…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s move to block a top-level political visit from Turkey could provoke a major diplomatic crisis between the two countries, according to TV2’s political analyst Anders Langballe who called…

Are Bulgaria, Portugal, or even Spain, really Denmark’s most important allies? That’s the question posed by Jyllands-Posten in an editorial, following Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen’s assertion that, after Great Britain pulls out of…

Denmark has contributed an extra DKK300m (€40m) to help alleviate the acute food crisis that’s ravaging Africa’s Horn and Yemen. Minister for Development Aid Ulla Tørnæs said in a statement, Sunday: “I’ve just…

Foreign Affairs Minister Anders Samuelsen utilised his first trip to China to bang the drum for Danish tourism. In what he termed an ‘historic agreement’, the minister signed a deal with Dianping.com, China’s…