President Trump’s chief economic adviser has backtracked on a recent White House report that claimed living standards in the Nordic countries, including Denmark, are at least 15% lower than in the United States….

Leading Danish People’s Party (DPP) MPs could lose their seats at the next election if the polls prove to be correct. The populist party has enjoyed a wave of success since 1995 but…

The Social Democrats are trying to make income tax an election issue by proposing a ’supertax’ on anyone earning more than DKK10m annually – only around 1,000 people but which would, according to…

Copenhagen Police were out in force over the weekend when the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (ASMLA) held its annual conference at the Park Inn hotel in Amager. The conference,…

Denmark has recognised Georgian as a ‘safe country’, which should drastically reduce the number of asylum seekers from the former Soviet bloc country. Formally, the Danish Immigration Service, the national police, and Refugee…

ATP, Denmark’s largest pension and social security provider, has called an emergency board meeting today to discuss the fate of CEO Christian Hyldahl who’s been dragged into the share-dividend tax-refund scandal. In his previous…

Companies hit by recruitment problems / Danish Crown reduces expectations…. Around two thirds of all companies in southern Jutland, Denmark’s industrial belt, that need manpower are experiencing recruitment problems. A new survey shows…

Politics/Economy: The centre-left ‘red’ bloc of parties has led the way throughout winter but as the election approaches a new Norstat survey for Jyllands-Posten indicated a dead heat – each side would win…

Former foreign minister Martin Lidegaard has praised his successor, Anders Samuelsen, for suspending new licenses for arms exports to Saudi Arabia, even though as minister himself in 2014 he relaxed the restrictions for…

Social Democrat leader and potential prime minister Mette Frederiksen has come under fire from vegetarians for dismissing the public debate about meat as ‘hysterical’. In a speech to the Jutland Agricultural Association recently,…