Top Danish executives are suffering from a pessimism hangover as they enter the New Year. In a new business survey by the Greens Institute for financial daily Børsen, three out of four CEO’s …

The number of immigrants claiming incapacity or invalidity pensions has risen dramatically over the past five years – 51 per cent on a national basis and 68 per cent in the Funen region…

Danish supermarkets that are part of the Co-op chain, such as Bilka, Irma, Kvikly, and Fakta, are selling specially designed plastic bags for five kroner in aid of starving children in Africa –…

Denmark assumes EU Presidency 1.1.12 . A Happy New Year to all 7:59 readers.  

Denmark officially assumed the rotating EU Presidency on January 1st – or, as it’s officially termed, ‘The Presidency of the Council of the European Union’. The EU banner is now waving from the…

Prime Minster Helle Thorning-Schmidt predicted tough times ahead in her maiden New Year speech to the nation and warned against believing that the crisis would soon be over. She said people are going…

Widespread pessimism could hit the government’s efforts to kick-start the economy. In a new Rambøll poll for Jyllands-Posten, half of all respondents said they believed unemployment will continue to rise in 2012 and…

The economic crisis, Denmark’s EU Presidency, and ‘community values’ were high on the agenda of HM Queen Margrethe’s 40th New Year speech to the nation. She spoke about the global crisis that continues…

Danish soldiers have personally mistreated Iraqi prisoners of war, according to Pprofessor of forensic medicine at the University of Southern Denmark, Jørgen Lange Thomsen, who examined and interviewed five Iraqi prisoners after they…

For the first time, Minister for Climate and Energy Martin Lidegaard has put a figure on the expected costs of turning Denmark ‘green’, as projected in the government’s recently published energy manifesto, ‘Our…