The Danish People’s Party (DPP), the government’s ally and guarantor of a parliamentary majority , immediately rejected the retirement reform proposals presented by the Prime Minister today. Party spokesman Kristian Thulesen Dahl warned…

Social Democrat leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt dismissed the government’s retirement reform proposals as ‘brutal’ and said she could see nothing positive in the attempt to phase out early retirement. She accused the Prime Minster…

Leading economists have welcomed the Prime Minster’s retirement reform programme but warned it won’t be enough to close the ever-growing budget deficit. Professor Michael Svarer of Aarhus University called it a ‘major step’…

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was ‘deeply disturbed’ by the terror attack on Moscow’s biggest airport, Domevedo. In a press release, the former Danish Prime Minister expressed NATO’s solidarity with the…

There were ‘Chechen’ fingerprints all over yesterday’s Moscow airport bombing, according to top Danish novelist and Russia expert Leif Davidsen who said the attack bore all the hallmarks of a classic Chechen ‘Black…

Denmark contributes far more to the EU than it receives back. New EU Commission figures show that Denmark is the EU country that loses most money on its membership – around DKK7bn per…

Denmark has frozen a DKK1.2bn contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria after an internal audit revealed that the high-profile organisation, valued at $21.7bn and promoted by high-profile activists…

The Conservatives’ policy spokesperson Henriette Kjær should resign immediately, according to the findings of a new poll. After a week of revelations about Ms Kjær’s private financial affairs, including unpaid bills, forgeries, and…

The government intends to replace the costly early-retirement scheme, efterløn, with ‘senior retirement’ that will still allow elderly, worn-out workers to retire early. The amendment is part of the government’s ‘labour market withdrawal’…

The Conservatives want to offer a tax-break to high earning Danish sportsmen and women who live in tax exile abroad. 20-year-old tennis player Caroline Wozniacki, who last night qualified for the semi-finals of…