Despite huge investment in manpower and a new IT system the Tax Department (SKAT) has never been so far behind in debt recovery. New SKAT figures sent to parliament’s Tax Committee show taxpayers’…

Maersk Tankers winds down Iran business /  Vestas to build Sweden’s largest wind farm / Airport expansion As reported by 7.59, Wednesday, tanker operator Maersk Tankers has said it will wind down its…

The government’s latest proposals to tighten the rules for citizenship have divided the government coalition. Ahead of a presentation by Integration Minister Inger Støjberg today the Conservatives’ Syrian-born Naser Khader revealed that, despite…

Foreign nationals applying for Danish citizenship need to be extremely patient. In an official response to parliament ahead of the government’s new citizenship bill that will be presented today, Integration Minister Inger Støjberg…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen praised California’s fight against climate change ahead of the R20 Austrian World Summit in Vienna, an annual event organised by the state’s former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that brings…

The USA’s relocation of its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem is wrong, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Ramussen said yesterday in response to two days of clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israel’s military that…

The economy slowed in the first quarter (Q1) of 2018 compared to Q4/17, a sign that growth for the whole year could be less than last year. GDP growth was measured at 0.3%…

Parliament has rejected Denmark’s first-ever citizens bill. A majority voted against the bill aimed at abolishing the ‘double degree’ law, passed in 2016, that limits students from taking a second, state funded education….

‘Submarine Slayer’ Peter Madsen’s appeal against his life sentence for the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall will be heard by the High Court on September 5th, prosecutors said yesterday. Madsen, who was…

Danish tankers stop taking Iran orders /  Pandora posts poor Q1 figures / Saxo Bank targets Russian investors Danish tanker operators Maersk and Torm have stopped taking new orders in Iran as a…