Just as the government and DPP appear to have reached agreement on the final details of the 2020 economic plan, Social Liberal leader Margaret Vestager has warned that any new legislation concerning justice…

After a dramatic day of negotiations, Finance Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen gave up trying to conclude a final agreement on retirement reform last night and will start again today. Although all parties were…

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) will be granted significant immigration and justice concessions as a reward for its support of the government’s retirement reform proposals when 2020 negotiations resume today, Politiken writes. The…

As the Social Liberals prepare to ink a deal with the government on retirement reform, opposition leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt has come under fire from former Social Democrat cabinet ministers who blame her for…

The government is preparing to send surveillance aircraft to monitor the coast of Africa as part of its new anti-piracy strategy. Minister of Defence Gitte Lillelund Bech said piracy has spread from the…

Danish IT innovator Janus Friis, who alongside his Swedish business partner Niklas Zennström founded and invented the internet telephone service Skype, achieved the unique feat of becoming a billionaire for the second time…

An Odense Imam is at the centre of a new Muslim marriage controversy after performing an engagement ceremony for a 16-year-old school girl and her 25-year-old fiancé. According to local newspaper Fyens Stiftstidende…

The birth rate in Denmark has increased more than any other country in the western world since 1984, a new OECD survey of 43 countries shows. Danish women gave birth to 1.84 babies…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen refused to speculate about a general election at his weekly press conference, claiming he’s too busy concentrating on the government’s 2020 plan. However, despite previously stating that he…

The Danish People’s Party’s (DPP) deputy leader Peter Skaarup said he found it ‘odd’ that the Social Liberals have demanded the government drops planned cuts in student grants in return for their support…