Danes believe there are far more Muslims living in Denmark than the true figures show. In a new Megafon survey for TV2, the average Dane estimates the number of Muslim residents at around…

Former prime minister and NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen and ex-foreign minister Per Stig Møller have been summoned to appear before the Iraq Commission, which was appointed in 2012 to investigate the…

Denmark’s budget showed a DKK34.6bn surplus last year, DKK10bn more than projected. New statistics Denmark figures show public finaces were boosted by a one-off DKK62bn windfall from the government’s pension reform programme, without…

Maersk Line signs new super ship deal / Foreign exchange reserves down Maersk: Maersk Line has signed a new, DKK12bn ($1.8bn)  contract with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering for eleven, plus six optional,…

Two new opinion polls, Monday, gave contrasting views of the election campaign. The latest Voxmeter poll showed the government and its centre-left allies in the lead for the first time since November 2013,…

A ‘dirty tricks’ Facebook campaign targeting Lars Løkke Rasmussen and the opposition could prove to be a decisive factor in the outcome of the election, communications experts claim. The mud-slinging ‘Inside the Blue…

A spokesman for the controversial Grimhøj Mosque in Aarhus has urged Muslims to boycott the general election as ‘democracy and Islam aren’t compatible.’ In a TV interview, and on Facebook, Youseff Loubani, called…

European Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva has defended Danish Commissioner Margrethe Vestager’s right to express an opinion about the upcoming election in this country after Danish People’s Party MEP Morten Messerschmidt threatened to lodge an official…

The Red/Greens are trying to make the government’s controversial DONG deal a campaign issue. The far-left party’s titular leader, Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen, yesterday called on all parties to reveal whether they support even more divestment…

In all secrecy a Danish citizen has for the past two months been remanded in custody on suspicion of actively supporting the Islamic State. Based on information from a ‘number of Islamist sources’,…