Danish companies are fleeing from the disturbances in Egypt. Global engineering company FL Smidth has sent all its foreign employees out of the country, industrial pump giant Grundfos has sent all local staff…

Denmark will be hit by strikes today. Transport unions warned yesterday that bus and train drivers throughout the country are ready to ‘down tools’ in protest at the government’s proposals to phase out…

Copenhagen police arrested six members of the anarchistic ‘autonome’ group yesterday after a sympathy demonstration of around 250 activists in Nørrebro against the closure of an illegally occupied youth centre in Berlin, where…

Danish companies remain hesitant about setting up in the booming Brazilian economy, expected to become the seventh-largest in the world next year. Jens Olesen, head of the Danish-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in Sao…

The Conservatives demand for DKK35bn in tax relief is a declaration of war on the welfare society, according to Socialist People’s Party Villy Søvndal. He accused the right-wing of using the crisis as…

It isn’t just the left that’s decried the Conservatives’ demand for tax relief. Danish People’s Party spokesman Kristian Thulesen Dahl accused the minor coalition partner of damaging the government’s argument for retirement reform…

Although it’s usually assumed that the political right always has the most financial resources to fight an election campaign, a new Gallup survey reveals that the left, backed by the trade union movement,…

Fears for Queensland backpackers as Yasi strikes / 36 arrests in gang raids / Bankruptcies down There are fears for that an estimated 500-800 Danish tourists, mostly backpackers, could become stranded in Queensland,…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen repeated the mantra yesterday that Denmark can’t afford the early retirement (efterløn) scheme, which he claimed is costing public expenditure that could be better spent on health or…

A new Conservative plans to reduce income tax to 45%, providing tax relief of around DKK35bn, has already been shot down by the Liberals. New Conservative policy spokesperson Carina Christensen claimed yesterday that…