A Copenhagen City Hall majority has called for a trial period to test legalised cannabis but the proposal has already been dismissed by the minister for health. The left-dominated City Council has repeatedly…

National Bank follows ECB, slashes key rate / New record for Copenhagen Airport…. As predicted, the National Bank cut its key deposit rate by 10 basis points to minus 0.75%, Thursday a record…

At the height of the refugee crisis in 2015 the Liberal (Venstre) government at the time discussed building a wall along Denmark’s southern border with Germany because it feared Europe was on the…

A tent camp built specifically to house migrants following the 2015 refugee crisis has stood empty for three and a half years, costing the state DKK20.8m($3m) . The camp was hastily set up…

Ahead of this year’s election the Social Democrats’ Mattias Tesfaye urged then Immigration Minister Inger Støjberg to speed up the application process for Moroccan asylum seekers, who he claimed had no chance of…

The government has granted an extra DKK180m ($28m) to humanitarian aid projects in Syria, the Foreign Ministry announced, Wednesday. Danish aid organisations such as DanChurchAid, Red Cross, and Save the Children will, jointly,…

While lawmakers in this country are reluctant to impose any further restrictions on cigarette smokers, the Danish Health Authority (Sundhedsstyrelsen) has advised children, youths, pregnant women, and breast-feeding mothers against smoking e-cigarettes. Head…

The Conservatives’ Rasmus Jarlov has summoned Finance Minister Nicolai Wammen and Labour Minister Peter Hummelgaard to a parliamentary consultation to explain why baggage handlers at Copenhagen Airport were allowed to go on strike…

Less than one year after praising Copenhagen as the world’s best city to visit’, globally famous travel guide Lonely Planet has now warned tourists against visiting the capital ‘because it’s become too popular’….

In a speech to industry insiders this week National Bank Governor Lars Rohde criticised Denmark’s financial sector for a long line of recent scandals, including the high-profile money laundering affair at the country’s…