Denmark’s ability to compete is under severe pressure. The government’s annual report on competitiveness, published yesterday, echoes the OECD’s conclusion from last week that Denmark has come through the crisis in a worse…

Just two per cent of workers in the industrial sector believe there will be more jobs available in five years’ time, while 60 per cent believe unemployment will continue to rise. The pessimism…

Politics / Economy In an interview to mark the first anniversary of the government, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt acknowledged that things haven’t gone as planned but denied that she has ‘betrayed’ voters or…

Successive governments’ enthusiasm to impose taxes and duties on everyday items such as beer, soft drinks, butter, and sweets is the main reason that one in ten of all grocery stores in the…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt told parliament’s Judicial Committee, Monday, that she has sole responsibility for the appointment of cabinet ministers, now and before the government was formed. In response to questions raised by…

One of Denmark’s leading sperm banks, Nordisk Cryobank, has been accused of a cover up after failing to report that one of its donors was a carrier of NF1 (neurofibromatosis) a genetic disorder…

An overwhelming majority of voters believe it’s the state’s, not the family’s, duty to financially support people when things go wrong. In a new Norstat poll for right-leaning think tank CEPOS, 75 per cent of…

The Red/Green Alliance has become the second-best popular party on the left. Berlingske Barometer’s ‘poll of polls’, the median of all national polls over the past three months, shows the far-left party would…

In her opening speech to the Social Democrats’ annual conference, Saturday, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt answered the criticism of the government’s unemployment reforms that could lead to thousands of people losing their benefits…

Former Social Democrat prime minister Paul Nyrup Rasmussen urged members to give the government a fair chance in a fiery speech at the party’s annual conference in Aalborg over the weekend. He said…