Former Integration Minister Birthe Rønn Hornbech was given a clear warning  in 2009 that the ministry’s refusal to grant stateless persons citizenship was in violation of UN Conventions, a top civil servant said…

Six Romanian nationals were arrested during a raid on the red-light district of Vesterbro in Copenhagen, Wednesday. The five men and one woman all denied the charges but were remanded in custody for…

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has come under fire for a full-page that appears in national newspapers today. The ad names 685 people who are about to be granted Danish citizenship, and the…

Economic growth in Denmark will be far less than the government’s very cautious projection of 0.5 per cent this year, according to the ‘wise men’ of the Economic Council who in their Spring…

The government has no plans to ease its fiscal policy. At her final press conference before the parliamentary summer break, Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt rejected calls from the ‘wise men’ of the…

The ‘wise men’ of the Economic Council have accused the government of an economic policy that requires excessive taxation to finance public expenditure. According to their latest report, over-taxing people to sustain public…

Questions are being asked as to why the Liberals have been given preferential treatment when parliament launches its British-style, one-on-one debates after the summer break. Conservative leader Lars Barfoed said it’s ‘undemocratic, indecent,…

The Niels Holck arms-dealing affair is obstructing the Danish fraud squad’s investigation of former Vestas chief financial officer Henrik Nørremark, accused of signing two unauthorised agreements in India that could have cost the…

Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal and Development Aid Minister Christian Friis Bach have green-lighted an extra DKK50m in aid to the Syrian people. They said that after two years of fighting and bombardment the…

Danes are no longer the most satisfied people in the world. A new OECD survey, Your Better Life Index, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential in the areas of…