Danske Bank is being sued in the U.S. by a major pension fund that claims Denmark’s biggest bank defrauded investors and inflated its share price by hiding and failing to stop widespread money…

Car sales hit record high / Vestas breaks energy record / Danish-Chinese company hit by swine fever Danish motorists spent a record amount on new cars last year despite a drop in the…

Iran has accused Denmark of ‘harbouring terrorists’ following the EU’s decision to freeze the assets of an Iranian intelligence unit over alleged assassination attempts in Europe (see below). In a tweeted message Iran’s…

The EU agreed yesterday to impose sanctions on Iran’s intelligence agency for its role in assassination plots in Denmark and France last year. The decision freezes financial assets in the EU belonging to…

Iran’s ambassador to Denmark, Morteza Moradian, declined to attend yesterday’s New Year parliamentary reception at Christiansborg due to his refusal to shake hands with women – a religious policy that also includes Speaker…

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) wants a combined general/EU election in May but according to leading political commentator Hans Engell the chances are the prime minister will plump for a pre-Easter date –…

The opposition has maintained its lead in the polls as the election approaches. A weighted average of all leading surveys since the start of December shows the ‘red’ bloc leading by 2-2.5% despite…

Criminals could lose the right to be a parent under the terms of a new bill put forward by the government today. A person could be deemed unfit for parental responsibility, partial custody,…

Danish schoolkids have performed better than expected on the European Commission’s latest education monitor. Denmark’s basic school students rank 4th out of 33 countries (EU28+5) in a comparison of mathematics, reading and science – Estonia…

Truck trailers on trains have been banned following last week’s deadly accident on the Great Belt Bridge after tests, Monday, revealed a ‘proportionally excessive number of errors’ in the locking mechanism. Transport Minister…