Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has dismissed the notion of an insurance-based welfare scheme as suggested by leading Liberal Party members (Venstre-politikere vil have velfærdsforsikringer).  At his weekly press conference, the PM urged…

70 million kroner – that’s the bill that Danish taxpayers are going have to foot for Denmark’s first month as part of the Libya mission. During the first two weeks of operations, Danish…

Danish F-16 pilots have rejected claims they are operating as a defence shield for Libyan insurgents. Nick Kenneth Hansen, head of operations for the Danish mission based in Sicily, denied allegations of siding…

In an interview with Danish TV News, Monday, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that the West had no option but to intervene in Libya. During a brief stopover in Copenhagen to…

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen discussed Libya with Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a behind closed doors meeting in Ankara, Monday. The relationship between the two has been cool since…

A Swedish court has ruled that a Swedish national, originally from Tunisia, can be extradited to Denmark to face charges of planning a terrorist attack on Jyllands-Posten offices in Copenhagen. The 37-year-old man…

Minister of Foreign Affairs Lene Espersen has become more receptive to the idea of Muammar Gaddafi being granted amnesty from prosecution if he leaves the war-torn country. After previously stating that the Libyan…

Danish F-16 fighter jets dropped at least two more bombs on Libyan targets, Monday, bringing the total to 128 since operations began on the 20th of March. With an estimated cost of DKK2…

Leading members of the Liberal Party are pushing for an insurance-based system of welfare instead of the universal ‘free for all’ principle. With the prospect of welfare becoming a hot topic in this…

Danes are the most indebted people in the world. While citizens of other countries have tightened their belts since the financial crisis, a new analysis by Swedish credit agency BKN shows that people…