The Liberals’ downslide in the polls continues. Although under-pressure leader Troels Lund Poulsen said following a similar disastrous poll last week that he knew supporting the recent fertiliser bill would be costly, a new…

With more than 90% of ballots processed early this morning from Sunday’s general election in Sweden opposition left-leaning parties held a lead of just a single seat but the result remained too ‘close…

A Danish citizen is among seven suspected Hamas ​members charged in Berlin with membership of ‌a foreign terrorist organisation and preparing an attack on Jewish targets in Germany or Austria around the second…

Politics/Economy: The government moved to ban mobile phones in schools following a historically poor PISA education report that showed schoolkids in this country are performing worse than at any point during the past…

The government has moved to ban mobile phones in schools in response to the country’s historically poor PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) education report. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Thursday the ban…

Education leaders have already dismissed the government’s proposed ‘total ban’ on mobile phones in schools as ‘redundant’. According to Dorte Andreas, head of the Danish School Leaders Association, the vast majority of schools…

Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has warned Syria there will be no broader agreement on reconstruction and trade unless Damascus cooperates with Denmark over the forced return of Syrians with no legal right…

A Copenhagen politician who sparked controversy by organising a women-only election meeting is set to replace far-left Free Greens (Frie Grønne) leader Sikandar Siddique on the City Council. Asham Agha Nadeem, the party’s…

Denmark is stepping up its support for Ukraine’s growing population of 1.8 million war veterans with a DKK45m ($7m) programme aimed at rehabilitation and helping former soldiers return to civilian life. The development…

Parties on both sides of the aisle have called for greater international oversight of Artificial Intelligence (AI), including the possibility of a global watchdog modelled on the UN’s nuclear agency. After former OpenAI…