A top tax ministry civil servant has been given a public reprimand for hiring unregistered Lithuanian construction workers to renovate his summer house. After tabloid daily Ekstra Bladet and trade union 3F revealed…

Saudi-Arabia has donated millions of kroner to a Copenhagen mosque that has previously acted as a base for some of Denmark’s most extreme Islamists. The DKK4.9m ($725,000) payment to the Tiaba mosque in…

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen yesterday dismissed accusations the government has reneged on its campaign promise to set up ‘Australian style’ asylum seeker processing centres outside the EU. In response to an article in…

Growing U.S. interest in Greenland won’t deter the country from seeking independence from Denmark. In an interview with Arctic Today, Kim Kielsen, Greenland’s premier and head of the country’s self rule government, said…

A new study by the Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research (CRF) reveals that at least 30,000 young people between 15-25 were last year forced to seek counselling or treatment for alcohol abuse…

A parliamentary majority has agreed to ban sales of laughing gas to minors. Gas cartridges, usually used for making whipped cream or filling balloons, have become a a popular source of a ‘weekend’…

Danish trade unions remain opposed to EU plans for a legally binding minimum wage despite assurances from Valdis Dombrovskis, Executive Vice President for an Economy that Works for People, that Denmark and a handful…

Iran appoints female ambassador to Denmark…Copenhagen ‘Europe’s healthiest’…. $3 million in farm aid to Afghanistan… Afsaneh Nadipour has been named Iran’s new to Denmark, the fourth female ambassador of the Islamic Republic. According…

Vestas aims for carbon neutrality…NETS cuts 565 jobs…Danfoss fires 335 in move to Poland… Vestas, the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, has pledged to eliminate all production line waste by 2040 as…

Denmark comes in 3rd on the Geography of Europe’s Brain Business Jobs: 2020 Index published by the European Centre for Entrepreneurship and Policy Reform think tank. Switzerland leads the way, followed by Sweden…