Danish cleaning and services giant, ISS, has announced plans to lay off around 100,000 employees in 13 countries as part of a global restructuring plan that will see assets representing 12% of the…

The government is determined to go ahead with its controversial refugee island project despite widespread criticism. After visiting Lindholm island, Friday, where up to 100 failed asylum seekers and criminal refugees will be…

Danes have the lowest life expectancy rate in Western Europe, mainly due to excessive drinking and smoking. While people in Switzerland and Spain can look forward to living to 83, Danes, on average,…

Nearly 36,000 jobs were available in October, the highest number ever and 3,000 more than the previous month. 2.1% of all positions in Denmark are currently vacant, the most for eight years and…

Lithuania has strongly distanced itself from the Danske Bank money laundering scandal. Whistleblower Howard Wilkinson, who last month described how Danske’s Estonian branch handled customers associated with top Russian politicians and companies, has…

Danske Bank shareholders are looking to newly installed chairman Karsten Dybvad to restore confidence in Denmark’s biggest bank in the wake of the money laundering scandal. A.P. Moller-Maersk, the bank’s top shareholder, pushed…

Vestager rules against German power giant / ATP snaps up Berlin street Denmark’s Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has ruled that German power company TenneT infringed EU antitrust rules by systematically limiting electricity between…

The debate about the government’s ‘refugee island’ scheme continues with the UN now joining the chorus of criticism. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said yesterday she has ‘serious concerns’ about the plan which is…

Integration Minister Inger Støjberg has accused the UN’s human rights chief of being ’too quick on the trigger’ for criticising the government’s plan to house failed asylum seekers and criminal refugees on a…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has decide to travel to Morocco himself on Sunday to sign the controversial Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, after Minister for Immigration and Integration Inger Støjberg…