After trying to ban the burka the Danish People’s Party (DPP) now wants to ‘ban the beard’. Party whip Peter Skaarup said yesterday he’s fully behind a new proposal to stop doctors and…

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) continues to block legislation that would provide citizenship for more than 3,000 immigrants. The populist party caused a stir in May when, without prior warning, it voted no…

A local imam in Skive has been given a suspended jail sentence for publicly equating homosexuality with paedophilia and bestiality. Mohamad Jammal was found guilty by Viborg District Court of making comments deemed…

Danes are the world’s third-best non-native English speakers, a new global study shows, but have slipped from second place last year. The annual English Proficiency Index (EPI) published by Education First (EF), Thursday, ranked Netherlands…

ATP, Denmark’s biggest pension fund, has warned it would be ‘very expensive’ for Danish pension savers if it was forced to pull out of the Cayman Islands where it’s invested DKK11.7bn (€1.5bn) in 21 different…

Denmark’s foreign trade surplus increased in September, as exports rose and imports fell. The latest figures from Statistics Denmark, published Thursday, showed seasonally adjusted trade surplus rose to DKK 7.8 billion in September…

Maersk Line posts big profit / China approves Maersk bid for rival / Vestas shares dive following poor Q3 figures  Maersk Line posted a net profit of $220 million in the third quarter…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has urged France’s President Macron to look towards Denmark for inspiration for his labour market reform initiatives. In an self-penned article on the EU policy website Politico, the…

The ruling Liberals have moved into their strongest poll position since the 2015 general election. A new ‘poll of polls’, an average of all recent national opinion polls calculated by Professor Kasper Møller Hansen, reveals…

There’s a good chance the average Dane has money stashed away in a tax shelter. In the wake of the Paradise Papers leak this week the media has focused on how multinationals such…