Swedish pull-out to start next year While Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen continues to maintain that Denmark will remain in Afghanistan for as long as it takes, Sweden will start to withdraw its…

Løkke’s Afghanistan doubts Denmark is waging war in Afghanistan to prevent the spread of terror, not to introduce democracy. In a new book, In the Eye of the Hurricane – Conversations with Lars…

Biker gang supplied prostitute A former highly-placed prison guard has admitted that he had sex with a prostitute funded by criminal bikers. The 52-year-old man, a section leader at the Copenhagen prison Vestre…

Human rights on the agenda Human rights were high on the agenda when Minister of Foreign Affairs Lene Espersen (C) met with her Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi in Shanghai, Sunday. Ms Espersen refused…

Shops sell alcohol to minors Many shops and supermarkets throughout the country continue to sell alcohol to minors, even though a new survey shows that Denmark holds the world record in youth drinking….

Hippy generation leads to young drunks Nearly half of all parents of 15-year-old children in Copenhagen openly accept their offsprings’ fondness for drinking, even though it’s illegal for minors to buy alcohol and…

Get your act together say leading Liberals The government’s nosedive in the polls and a series of high profile gaffes have created a backlash from leading grass-roots Liberals. Mayor of Herning Lars Krause,…

PM: ‘I’d rather lose the election than do the wrong thing’ After being given a unanimous show of support from the party faithful at the Liberals’ party conference in Odense over the weekend,…

Danes worked as  SS guards during WW2 A new book names 99 Danish nationals who worked as SS guards in Nazi concentration camps during WW2 and were involved in the ‘systematic extermination of…

Stock market crash led to suicides The shame of losing a fortune led to a number of tragic suicides amongst the prosperous inhabitants of the up-market ‘whisky belt’ north of Copenhagen. In a…