Keep hold of the greysters – the state could benefit by around DKK0.5bn annually if the elderly stayed in the labour market instead of retiring. The ‘wise men’ of the Economic Council have…

Cut price airlines that dump wages could trigger off a new round of cutbacks at Scandinavia’s flagship airline, SAS. Discount flyers save hundreds of millions of kroner by ‘creative’ hiring methods such as…

Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen has been recommended to HM Queen Margrethe as the new Permanent Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to succeed Claus Grube who has been…

Housing starts in Denmark are at an all-time low – just 9,500 new properties are planned for this year, compared to 34,600 in 2006. Senior economist Finn Bo Frandsen of the Danish Construction…

Parliament’s concluding debate before the summer recess, Wednesday, was, as per custom, dominated by insults, boasting, and counter accusations of failed policy and broken promises. In her final speech of the parliamentary period…

In contrast to the ‘wise men’ of the Economic Council, the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) believes the government doesn’t need to ease its strict fiscal policy to stimulate growth. The…

The governments’ downwardly revised expectations for growth are confirmed in the OECD’s latest Economic Outlook, which forecasts no more than 0.4 per cent growth this year, close to the government’s own figures but…

The Danish economy is often portrayed as being so fragile that it appears ready to collapse at any moment, but according to Berlingske’s financial analyst Lars Erik Skovgaard it’s not all doom and…

In its latest country-specific report, The European Commission states that the Danish government’s ‘macroeconomic scenario underpinning the budgetary projections in the programme is plausible’. According to the report, ‘The scenario projecting GDP growth…

Another leading international corruption watchdog has come out against the government’s controversial right to information bill. After the internationally recognised Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD)in Halifax, Canada, called the proposed legislation ‘unacceptable…