Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen (LA) now has the authority to block Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline after a unanimous parliament passed a law, Thursday, that can stop the project passing through Danish…

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has demanded ’fundamental changes’ in Danish immigration policy as a ‘quid pro quo’ for supporting the government’s key issue of tax cuts. The DPP’s hardline stance on immigration…

Investment in African job-creation will prevent the continent’s youth from seeking employment in Europe, Minister for Development Ulla Tørnæs said yesterday in an address to the 5th African Union-European Union Summit in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. She…

Driverless cars are the future, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said during a visit to Singapore, Thursday. At a business forum he predicted driverless cars – which are being extensively tested and used in…

The UN has launched an official investigation into whether the Danish Warship Lauge Koch was built by North Korean forced labour, in violation of a UN weapons embargo. A TV documentary aired in…

Despite constant reports of an upswing the Danish economy shrank at the fastest rate since 2011 in the year’s third quarter (Q3). The latest Statistics Denmark figures show Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fell…

The jobless queue shortened slightly in October but not enough to have any impact on the overall unemployment rate, which remained unchanged at 4.3% of the labour force. 700 people gained work from…

Notorious gang leader Danny Abdalla was sentenced to indefinite custody with deportation to follow by Holstebro District Court, Thursday after being found guilty of 36 charges of crime, including the rape of his…

The government has donated DKK 2.5 million to the Danish Refugee Council to develop a new innovative model, in collaboration with IBM, that will be able to track, and potentially also predict, refugee…

Russia is demanding the extradition of a dissident who was detained by police during a stopover at Copenhagen Airport last week. Politiken reports that 43-year-old Russian national Alexander Panesj, a lawyer for opposition…