A well-known local politician from the Zeeland region north of Copenhagen has been fined DKK 5,000 for leaking confidential information about the Atea corruption affair. The Social Democrats’ Freddy Black, a former EU…

Poland’s ambassador to Denmark has urged Polish residents in Denmark to return home to help fill the labour shortage in her country. 2.4 million Polish nationals have left Poland to seek work abroad…

MPs have also enjoyed the use of free rooms to host private receptions. In the wake of the City Hall wedding scandals it’s now been revealed that two lawmakers have taken advantage of the…

New information about ‘shady transactions’ carried out by Danske Bank’s Estonian branch could lead to massive penalties for Denmark’s biggest financial institution. Berlingske has previously reported how the Bank assisted criminals to smuggle…

Producer Price Inflation (PPI) eased for the first time in four months in October. The latest Statistics Denmark figures show the producer price index climbed 1.9 percent year-over-year in October, slower than September’s…

Local Government Denmark (Kommunernes Landsforening /KL), which is supposed to advise 98 local municipalities on ‘good public administration’, stands accused of a misuse of public funds after a TV2 investigation revealed a former…

The Conservatives integration spokesman, Naser Khader, has refused to apologise to female imam Sherin Khankan who’s threatened to sue him for defamation. In an e-mail sent to all political parties last September Mr Khader and two…

Denmark assumes the rotating chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe today when Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen attends a handing over ceremony in Strasbourg. The government has said it…

Emmanuel Macron is pushing for Danish EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager to become the next president of the European Commission. According to three senior officials in the European Parliament, the French president hopes…

The much-acclaimed economic upswing appears to have ground to a halt during the year’s third quarter (Q3) when GNP growth shrank by minus 0.3 per cent. Senior Danske Bank economist Las Olsen called…