The European Central Bank (ECB) has urged the government to reconsider its proposed ban on the €500 note in this country, part of a wide-ranging crackdown on money laundering following the Danske Bank…

Two global companies renowned for hiring the most foreign workers in Denmark – furniture giant Ikea and cleaning and services company ISS – have publicly criticised the ‘paradigm shift’ in immigration policy that…

Ahead of his arrival in Washington DC, Thursday, Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen accused Russia of showing a ‘shocking contempt’ for international law by boarding Ukrainian naval vessels and harassing merchant ships in the Azov…

Danish F-16s were scrambled, Wednesday, to divert two Russian bombers that had strayed too close to Danish airspace. A Defence Command spokesman confirmed to TV2 that two Russian Tu-160 ‘Blackjack’ planes were ‘escorted’…

Denmark became the latest country to become caught up in China’s panda diplomacy when ‘two furry envoys’ – Mao Sun and Xing Er – arrived in Copenhagen, Thursday, a move aimed at rubber…

Following talks with his Greece counterpart, Alexis Tsipras, in Athens, Thursday, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said Denmark would continue to contribute to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, also known as Frontex,…

A Muslim woman was asked to leave a school in Aarhus, Thurday, after she refused to remove her face-covering niqab. The woman and a colleague from the Women in Dialogue organisation were on…

Notorious Islam critic Rasmus Paludan is facing a prison sentence today when he appears at Glostrup District Court. The lawyer and head of the nationalist ‘Stram Kurs’ (Firm Direction) party is charged with…

It can’t be termed a major diplomatic incident but Denmark’s Arctic sovereignty dispute with Canada is in the headlines again after a mining geologist was granted a mineral exploration claim under Canadian law…

When the two giant pandas given to Denmark by China arrive at Copenhagen Airport today they’ll be met by a pro-Tibet demonstration. Panda bears have been used by China to great political and symbolic effect as…