Employment Minister Peter Hummelgaard will be the keynote speaker at the traditional celebration of International Workers Day speech in Fælledparken on May 1st, replacing Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen who’s declined to appear following…

The government has ruled out forcibly repatriating failed asylum seekers to Syria as Denmark will never cooperate with Præsident al-Assad and his regime, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said yesterday. After upheldig deportation orders…

Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod held talks with his Iraqi counterpart, Mohammed al-Hakim, in Baghdad, Tuesday, centering on boosting bilateral relations and the reopening of the Danish embassy in the Iraqi capital. According to…

Denmark’s Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s digital and competition chief, has presented the long-awaited details of an EU digital strategy that the U.S. fears will to have major consequences for technology giants such…

China buys Danish robots to fight coronavirus…..Maersk buys US logistics firm….Butter sales boost Arla profits…. Chinese Sunay Healthcare Supply has purchased self-driving Danish disinfection robots to help hospitals in China  fight the coronavirus….

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen remains pessimistic about EU countries reaching agreement on the long-term 2021-2027 EU budget this week. Ahead of tomorrow’s extraordinary European Council meeting, when 27 EU leaders will gather to…

The number of migrant workers coming to Denmark has slowed considerably, leading to warnings of a labour shortage. Financial daily Børsen reports that during the last nine months of 2019 there was zero…

The number of immigrants claiming social benefits has fallen to a 16-year-low. A new study shows 29% of all non-western immigrants were living off public entitlements last year, compared to 39% in 2016,…

Social fraudster Britta Nielsen was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison, Tuesday, after Copenhagen District Court found her guilty of embezzling DKK117n ($17m) of welfare money for decades. As a high ranked employee…

Financial security procedures within the social system have been vetted and tightened so fraud on a scale with the Britta Nielsen affair can never happen again, Social Affairs Minister Astrid Krag said yesterday,…