Handelsbanken warned about money laundering risks….Maersk’s ambitious CO2 target…Carlsberg raises profit projection… The Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA), the finance sector’s watchdog, has ordered Swedish Handelsbanken to improve oversight of customers at its Danish branch…

The government tried to silence the Social Liberals’ (Radikale) gender equality spokesman Samira Nawa after she publicly criticised Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod for having sex with a 15-year-old girl in 2008. Tabloid daily…

Former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has rejected claims he was informed about the possibility of illegalities at the immigration ministry in 2016. In previous testimony to the Child Brides Commission, justice minister…

Successive Danish governments’ dire warnings about dependency on Russian energy are about to become reality. New figures from partially state-owned Orsted reveal that half of all energy consumption in Denmark this year will…

Russia’s ambassador to Copenhagen, Vladimir Barbin, has criticised the Danish Navy’s participation in a British-led military operation in Russia’s exclusive economic zone in the Barents Sea earlier this month, saying it risks inflaming tensions in…

The import of illegal cigarettes has risen dramatically since the government imposed new duties on all tobacco products on April 1st. According to security and consultancy company Eagle Shark, which monitors the ‘black…

Copenhagen has become a cheaper place to live – at least according to a new survey. From 7th on the British Economist magazine’s annual list of the world’s most expensive cities last year, the Danish…

The trial of two Danish businessmen accused of multi-million VAT fraud gets underway in Katowice, Poland, today. According to the 64-page indictment the two Danes, aged 53 and 59, are charged with, among…

Danske Bank is trying to improve its tarnished image by stressing how it provides loans for the implementation of projects in developing countries in co-operation with the Danish Government. According to Denmark’s biggest…

Millions of ‘tainted dollars’ funnelled through Danske Bank’s now liquidated branch in Estonia was linked to drug dealers, arms smugglers and mafia-like organisations, confidential documents leaked by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists…