The Socialist People’s Party’s (SPP) policy spokesman, Jesper Petersen, dropped a political bombshell last night by quitting the party and joining the Social Democrats. The 31-year-old Mr Petersen, a staunch supporter of Health…

Jesper Petersen’s resignation from the Socialist People’s Party (SPP) is both demoralising and a major setback for party leader Anette Vilhelmsen who’s already under severe pressure, DR’s political analyst Uffe Tang said last…

Top business executives’ glowing praise for the government’s policies is only because of the centre-right’s ‘constructive opposition’, according to the Conservatives’ business spokesman, Brian Mikkelsen. In response to a new Berlingske Business Leaders’…

At her weekly press conference, Tuesday, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt acknowledged the praise from business leaders (see above) but rejected that the government has turned right. She said the coalition’s polices are based…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has welcomed the news of an earlier than expected Danish troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. At her weekly press conference, Tuesday, she announced there will be no need for more…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Ergodan’s official visit to Denmark today is a sign that the relationship between the two countries has been normalised after a lengthy diplomatic crisis, according to Politiken’s Turkey…

Ahead of his official visit to Denmark, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has backed down from abrasive comments made in Austria three weeks ago when he described Zionism as a ‘crime against…

The government is preparing to downwardly adjust its economic growth forecast for 2013. After the Ministry for Economic and Interior Affairs announced that Danish GDP shrank by 0.6% in 2012, Economy Minister Margrethe…

Danish companies employed 59,000 new workers last year – unfortunately all of them abroad. As the labour market in this country continues to shrink, new figures from the Confederation of Danish Industries (DI)…

The government has been showered with praise from an unexpected source – the business sector. Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s Social Democrat party may be sinking to new depths in the opinion polls, but…