Speaker of the House Pia Kjærsgaard has lashed out at parliamentary parties for awarding themselves DKK52m (€6.8m) to commission voter studies and purchase external consultancy services – ‘an excessive and unnecessary amount’ according…

Politics/Economy Ahead of a meeting with President Trump in Washington this week, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen acknowledged that the current US government ‘works in a different way than what we have seen…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen will meet President Trump in Washington next week on the eve of the 100th anniversary of Denmark formally ceding the U.S. Virgin Islands to the United States. The…

President Trump’s moves to keep Muslims out of the U.S. has garnered worldwide attention but the Washington Post notes that one European country has an even more restrictive policy – Denmark. The widely-respected…

Parliament’s Ombudsman has ruled the government acted illegally by separating ‘child brides’, some as young as 14 years of age, from their male spouses at refugee and asylum centres. The ombudsman warned Integration…

The opposition is still on course to regain power at the next election. The latest Epinion poll for DR News gives the ‘red’ centre-left alliance 51.6% of the vote and, potentially, the keys…

The Socialist People’s Party (SPP) has recovered from its ‘government trauma’ and would be open to forming a new coalition with the Social Democrats after the next election, party leader Pia Olsen Dyhr said yesterday….

The government plans to further incentivise property investment despite economists’ warnings of a housing bubble. The government has proposed lowering the capital requirements for purchasing holiday homes from 40% to 25%, and allowing foreign buyers back…

The Nordic Council meets today to discuss the ‘Global Laundromat’ money laundering scandal that has rocked banks throughout the region, but especially in this country. Denmark’s two biggest banks were implicated earlier this…

Retail sales may be down but consumer confidence strengthened for the third straight month in March to the highest level in just over one-and-a-half years. The consumer confidence index climbed to 6.2 in…