Jacob Ellemann-Jensen has backed down from another of his pre-election ultimatums. During the campaign, the Liberal leader demanded an investigation into acting Mette Frederiksen’s role in the espionage scandal but, after becoming part…

The National Audit Office’s review of cabinet ministers’ use of official credit cards won’t be concluded until Spring next year. The probe, which will include a check on all current and previous ministers’…

Meta, formerly Facebook, has terminated a major expansion project in Denmark with immediate effect. The global social media giant has already invested billions of kroner in a 56.500 sq.metre data centre in Denmark’s…

Denmark has a new government. After six weeks of negotiations, acting prime minister Mette Frederiksen has announced a ‘grand coalition’ that will bring together the Social Democrats, the Liberals (Venstre) and the Moderates….

The new government signals yet another comeback for former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, who quit as Liberal leader after the 2019 election and formed the Moderates this year with the specific aim…

Acting prime minister Mette Frederiksen’s former allies on the left launched a late-night Twitter attack on the new centrist government. Socialist People’s Party (SPP) leader, Pia Olsen Dyhr, said as the head of…

Criminal proceedings against suspended ‘spy boss’ Lars Findsen won’t be concluded until 2024 at the earliest. Copenhagen District Court has scheduled 28 hearings, the first on October 30th next year, and doesn’t expect…

A new omicron subvariant is moving through Danish society at a rapid pace. BQ.1.1, which was found in only 0.5% of all tests three months ago, is now responsible for 40% of all…

Danske Bank pleaded guilty to bank fraud in the U.S. on Tuesday and agreed to pay $2 bn. In a New York court case, Denmark’s biggest bank admitted conspiring to commit bank fraud…

Denmark could come under increasing pressure to apologise for its colonial-era slavery if, as expected, the Dutch government does so later this month. Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte said after meeting with representatives…