Denmark’s EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has fined eight producers of capacitors €254 million for participating in a cartel. The Commission said Elna, Hitachi Chemical, Holy Stone, Matsuo, Nec Tokin, Nichicon, Nippon Chemi-Con…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen denied again yesterday that he can be ‘bought’ but admitted that people can gain access to him through the ruling Liberals’ ‘Business Club’. In response to accusations that…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen used the forum of parliamentary question time, Tuesday, to criticise President Trump’s imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum. The PM dismissed the move as protectionist and urged…

Integration Minister Inger Støjberg has defended her Norwegian colleague Sylvi Listhaug, who was forced to step down as justice minister yesterday after an uproar about her Facebook post claiming the opposition Labour Party…

Opposition leader Mette Frederiksen has brushed off allegations of racism, provoked by her Facebook response to a young Somali woman on Facebook last week. After Hanna Mohammed Hassan criticised the Social Democrats’ unwillingness…

Copenhagen is again ranked high on Mercer’s annual ranking of the quality of living for expatriate employees on assignment in locations around the world. The Danish capital comes in 9th on the 2018 list that’s again topped by…

Consumer confidence remained high in March. The latest figures from Statistics Denmark showed the consumer confidence index came in at 8.5 in March, the same reading as in February. Steen Bocian, Chief Economist…

Chinese-owned dairy company Mille Food in Hundested is ready to start exporting mass quantities of Danish-produced infant milk formula to China. Majority shareholder and managing director Steve Wei Qing Wang said he was…

Falck fires 570 / Air travellers facing strike disruption  Falck: Danish emergency services group Falck has decided to outsource transportation of non-acute patients to external providers and lay off 570 employees in its…

Sunday’s fire-bomb attack on Turkey’s embassy in Copenhagen reflects the deep divisions in the 60,000-strong Turkish community in Denmark following the 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayip Erdogan, insiders claim. Danish-Turkish journalist Hasan…