Danes drink and smoke more than residents of other developed countries and Denmark has one of the highest mortality rates for cancer related sicknesses amongst Western nations. And although life expectancy figures in…

Anders Fogh Rasmussen is one of the top names tainted by the Wikileaks scandal. Thousands of secret documents were leaked by the controversial website, Sunday, including information that the former Danish Prime Minister…

Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has offered to provide the Danish Ministry of Defence with all the top-secret information it has concerning the handing over of war prisoners to face torture. Julian Assange, head of…

The number of people suffering from poverty in Copenhagen has risen sharply over the past ten years. New figures from the Economic Council of the Labour Movement (AE) show that 7% of the…

Unforeseen life-long incapacity benefits have cost the state an extra DKK47bn since politicians reformed early retirement legislation in 2003. 240,000 people in Denmark live off incapacity benefits today, including a record 17,100 who…

An increasing number of refugees and immigrants have accepted the government’s offer of a cash bonus to leave Denmark. During the first ten months of this year, 332 people returned home to their…

Denmark is to offer Ireland a multi-billion kroner loan. After attending a hastily-called EU meeting in Brussels, Minister of Finance Claus Hjorth Frederiksen said that Denmark is prepared to offer €400m – around…

The Danish People’s Party (DPP) has urged all parties at Christiansborg to join the fight against the EU’s attempt to influence immigration legislation. In response to news that Turkey’s Association Agreement with the…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has been urged not to attend the COP16 Climate Conference in Mexico. Although leading Social Democrats have put pressure on the PM to travel to Mexico, the party’s…

Experts agree that it was Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen (L) who emerged as the big loser from last night’s debate between the Social Democrats’ Helle Thorning-Schmidt and the Danish People’s Party’s (DPP)…