The Danish People’s Party’s public spat with the Liberals on economic policy could seriously damage the opposition’s chance of victory at this year’s election, news radio 24/7’s political editor Jesper Termansen said yesterday after…

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, and in a throwback to the 1930’s, there is growing political and military concern, both in and outside Denmark, that Danish defence…

The newly-formed National Party has received 5,000 ‘voter declarations’ since 19-year-old Muslim poet Yahya Hassan announced his candidacy for MP, Tuesday, which means the party now has more than the 20,000 signatures needed…

Justice Minister Mette Frederiksen said yesterday that other countries are welcome to use information contained in the Danish Immigration Service’s heavily-criticised fact-finding report on Eritrea and she has no intention of withdrawing it. After it was revealed that the…

Just as Denmark’s economy emerges from its last property bust, the country’s banking watchdog says it’s on alert to prevent another bubble from forming. The Financial Supervisory Authority (Finanstilsynet) is ready to raise…

EU Competition Commissioner, and former Social Liberal leader, Margrethe Vestager has  launched a full-scale investigation into a proposal by Norwegian telecoms company Telenor and Swedish peer TeliaSonera to combine their Danish mobile businesses,…

Dankort transactions up / Denmark rises on global commerce index Dankort: Retail purchases with the Danish national debit card, Dankort, rose 8.2 percent in March from a year earlier to DKK 29.6bn, card…

In the countdown to the election, Danish People’s Party (DPP) leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl has signalled division on the right by dismissing Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s warning of an economic crash landing as ‘hypocrisy.’…

The Danish Employers Confederation’s (DA) call for wide cuts in social benefits as part of a concerted effort to get 85,000 people off welfare has been dismissed by Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt as a…

The Danish Employers Confederation (DA) yesterday continued its attack on the welfare mentality in this country by characterising Denmark as a ‘loser country’ compared to Sweden. Director General Jørn Neergaard Larsen said excessive social benefits in…