Copenhagen City Hall has spent DKK6.8m ($1.05m) funding failed job-creation projects run by private organisations for the long-term unemployed. Between April 2017 and March 2018, 289 socially vulnerable people were forced to attend…

Around three quarters of the Danish electorate expect to vote in next year’s European parliamentary election. A new Eurobarometer survey shows 76% of Danes say they will vote in 2019, the highest number…

Denmark has climbed into the global top-10 on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) latest Global Competiveness report, a comparison of the world’s biggest economies based on almost 100 different indicators, from the quality…

The Institute for Human Rights (IHR) has applauded the government’s move to give incapacitated people who’ve been appointed a guardian the right to vote in general elections. Justice Minister Søren Pape Poulsen said…

London-based financier William Browder, who in June asked the Danish authorities to investigate Danske Bank for allegedly allowing Russian officials to launder millions of dollars stolen over the last decade, has now turned his attention to Scandinavia’s biggest…

51 currency exchange bureaus in Denmark have been forced to close down over the past two years following a crackdown on money laundering. Head of the Financial Supervisory Authority’s (FSA) money laundering department,…

Chinese internet trading giant Alibaba is in the running to receive nearly a million dollars in Danish development aid. Left-wing daily Information reports today how the online commerce company, in partnership with a…

Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen has welcomed a new EU sanctions mechanism targeting those who use and develop chemical weapons, part of a crackdown after the nerve agent poisoning in March of Sergei Skripal,…

The Social Welfare Authority (Socialstyrelsen) has temporarily shut down all funding for schemes and programmes aimed at some of the most vulnerable groups in society as police continue the hunt for 64-year-old Anna…

Globalisation has made Denmark more prosperous without increasing financial inequality, Finance Minister Kristian Jensen said yesterday. Commenting on a new Finance Ministry study, Mr Jensen said globalisation has made everybody richer, while at…